Sources & Acknowledgements

The deepest source of this book is not a library. It is the lived, hands-on experience of its authors — Tom and Stacey Crutchfield, who have spent lifetimes keeping, breeding and working crocodilians and other reptiles, and Braxton Warren, who has studied these animals for more than twenty years. Where this book explains how a crocodilian behaves, why it does what it does, or how to live safely beside it, that knowledge comes first from them. The sources below were used to confirm facts, provide figures, and document the specific events described.