Crocodile

Crocodile
Biological type:	Crocodilian reptile
Place of origin:	Earth
First appearance:	The Didus Expedition [+]Loading...["The Didus Expedition (comic story)"]
Appearances:	see list

Extraterrestrial lookalikes

Crocodiles were a type of reptile known to reside on several different planets.

Earth crocodiles

The Sarcosuchus was an ancient species of Earth crocodile. (AUDIO: Spring-Heeled Jack ^[+]Loading...["Spring-Heeled Jack (audio story)"], Family Matters ^[+]Loading...["Family Matters (audio story)"])

In ancient Egypt, Thoueris controlled the crocodiles in the River Nile with her ring. The Eighth Doctor took her ring and used it to turn the crocodiles against her. (COMIC: The Power of Thoueris! ^[+]Loading...["The Power of Thoueris! (comic story)"]) According to the Twelfth Doctor, the people of Crocodilopolis in ancient Egypt worshipped a giant crocodile, which the Doctor claimed was a "useful coincidence". (TV: The Caretaker ^[+]Loading...["The Caretaker (TV story)"])

According to the Legend of Sutekh, they were among the animals associated with the titular Osiran god of evil and violence, Sutekh. Other animals associated by the Egyptian tradition with the cults of Sutekh included donkeys, hippopotamuses and pigs. (PROSE: Background ^[+]Loading...["Background (DWPM 8 short story)"])

Near the Karabar Caves, India on 31 December 1926, the Fifth Doctor and his companions Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka and Turlough were forced to cross a den of crocodiles. Tegan referred to one of them as "an overgrown handbag." (AUDIO: The Emerald Tiger ^[+]Loading...["The Emerald Tiger (audio story)"])

In India in 1947, a crocodile which had been mutated by zytron energy tried to attack Edgar Campbell's house, but Major Daker shot it dead. (PROSE: Ghosts of India ^[+]Loading...["Ghosts of India (novel)"])

Crocodiles were listed in the Avalonian Bestiary of all animal life on the Earth colony Avalon. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice ^[+]Loading...["The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)"])

On other planets

On an unnamed planet, the First Doctor was nearly attacked by a crocodile, but drove it off with some magnesium powder. (COMIC: The Didus Expedition ^[+]Loading...["The Didus Expedition (comic story)"])

A group of six legged psychic crocodiles. (PROSE: The Crocodiles from the Mist ^[+]Loading...["The Crocodiles from the Mist (short story)"])

A lake on one planet was infested with crocodiles. The first of the tests of Trefus required that one of the fair-haired people to swim across this lake. Saul completed this test when the Second Doctor used explosives to temporarily stun the crocodiles. (COMIC: The Tests of Trefus ^[+]Loading...["The Tests of Trefus (comic story)"])

Another planet was inhabited by six-legged, telepathic crocodiles. (PROSE: The Crocodiles from the Mist ^[+]Loading...["The Crocodiles from the Mist (short story)"])

Crocodiles lived on an island in the Divergent Universe. (AUDIO: The Next Life ^[+]Loading...["The Next Life (audio story)"])

Similar species

The soresox were a species that looked like stone crocodiles. (PROSE: The Doctor Trap ^[+]Loading...["The Doctor Trap (novel)"])

A crocodilian species was native to Sobek. (AUDIO: The Skull of Sobek ^[+]Loading...["The Skull of Sobek (audio story)"])

References

Neville Catchlove described the Ice Warriors as "upright crocodiles". (TV: Empress of Mars ^[+]Loading...["Empress of Mars (TV story)"])

Other

Like Captain Hook, a Crocodile was a character in a popular pantomime. As a result, an old crocodile prop was one of the props stored in the understage area of one theatre where the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan and Dan Lewis came to see Cinderella. After the Doctor used a link from Spacebook in an effort to bring "the magic of pantomime" to the performance, the props and costumes were replaced with real versions, "snatched" from other places and realms; as a result a real version of this crocodile was summoned. It attacked the group alongside several other pantomime villains, and Yaz had to fight it off to keep him at bay while the Doctor found a way to fix things. After she found a Genie's magic lamp among the props, she was able use one of her three wishes to "wish" her friends safe, resulting in all the pantomime characters being returned to whence they came. (COMIC: It's Behind You! ^[+]Loading...["It's Behind You! (comic story)"])