What is baby crocodile called?

Hatchlings: Baby crocodiles and alligators Juveniles: Young crocodiles and alligators Adults: Older crocodiles and alligators Hatch: when baby crocodiles first come out of their egg Mature: When a crocodile is old enough to reproduce. This is an egg from a saltwater crocodile.
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What are baby alligators called?

Baby alligators (hatchlings) have a pointed “egg tooth” or a caruncle to help them break out of their shell. This tooth is soon lost after hatching. Hatchlings are about 8 inches long. A group of hatchlings is called a pod.
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What are male crocs called?

A male crocodile is called a bull, while a female crocodile is called a cow.
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What are baby snakes called?

For example, baby snakes are called snakelets, just like baby pigs are called piglets.
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What's a baby camel called?

Baby camels are called calves. The newborn calf is able to walk within 30 minutes, though the two won't rejoin the herd until around two weeks later.
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What do we call baby of monkey?

A baby fish is called a fry or a fingerling. A baby goose is called a gosling. A baby kangaroo is called a joey. A baby monkey is called an infant. View more names at zooborns.com.
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What is giraffe baby called?

A baby giraffe is called a calf.
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What is baby of tiger called?

tiger cub. a young tiger. type of: young mammal.
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What is baby elephant called?

What about a baby? Elephants have little in common with cattle, but they share with them the names for adult male (bull), adult female (cow) and juvenile (calf).
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What's a baby dolphin called?

Although they're commonly referred to as "cuties" by all who adore them, baby bottlenose dolphins are actually called "calves." Male dolphins are called "bulls," females are called "cows," and a group is a "pod."
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What is the baby of bear called?

Adult females give birth in dens to baby bears called cubs. Cubs are born in January and weigh between 8 ounces and 16 ounces.
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What is the baby of kangaroo?

The baby kangaroo, called a joey, spends about 235 days in the mother's pouch.
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What are baby foxes called?

Fox babies are called pups. During mating season, the female will cry out to let males know that she is ready. After mating, females will make a nest of leaves inside her burrow on which to have her pups.
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What are baby hyenas called?

Baby spotted hyenas, called cubs, are born with black fur that grows out as lighter hair with spots. Spotted hyena clans, which are led by females, often meet at a large den in the middle of their territory. Hyenas have a complicated system of greeting and interacting with each other.
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Do female hyenas have a PP?

All female spotted hyenas have functional penises. They use it pee, signal, anally mount males & females for dominance, and give birth. Intersex plumbing is found in ALL females of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) of Tanzania—in which the females have penises nearly indistinguishable from those of the males.
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What animals does the male give birth?

Seahorses and their close relatives, sea dragons, are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth.
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Can hyenas change sexes?

Indeed, Pliny says, the critter is “popularly believed to be bisexual and to become male and female in alternate years.” In Aesop's fable “The Hyenas,” they “change their sex each year.” Even Ernest Hemingway called the hyena a “hermaphroditic self-eating devourer of the dead, trailer of calving cows, ham-stringer, ...
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Do crocodiles age?

Unlike many other animals on this planet, crocodiles and alligators have no finite life span. Instead, they continue to live and grow unless affected by their environment through a lack of food, disease, accidents, or another large predator. Instead of aging biologically, alligators continue to simply grow in size.
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Do crocodiles poop?

“It's a very opportunistic kind of thing.” How big is crocodile poop? “It's not elephant-sized, but it's pretty good sized,” Hall says. “You'd be surprised what comes out of their body sometimes.”
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What is a group of husbands called?

If a marriage involves a plural number of "husbands and wives" participants of each gender, then it can be called polygamy, group or conjoint marriage. In its broadest use, polyandry refers to sexual relations with multiple males within or without marriage.
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What is a group of humans called?

There is no specific word to describe a group of humans. When we dig up the English language, we find several words that could represent a community of humans, but none that exactly match what we are looking for.
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