{"id":218133,"date":"2025-10-16T20:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218133\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:25:07","slug":"can-a-human-outrun-a-crocodile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218133\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a human outrun a crocodile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The short answer is yes, most humans will be able to outrun a crocodile. \u201cMost crocodiles can achieve 12\u201314kph for short periods,\u201d says crocodile specialist Adam Britton, \u201cwhich is slower than a fit humancan run.  So if you\u2019re in reasonable shape, you could definitely outrun a croc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How do crocodiles move?<\/p>\n<p>Crocodiles have three main types of locomotion: the belly-crawl, used over mud; the high walk, in which the legs push the body up off the ground; and the \u2018gallop\u2019, where they bound like a rabbit. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAncient croc-like creatures likely galloped after prey on land, but most modern crocodiles only gallop to escape danger,\u201d says Adam, \u201ctaking prey by surprise launches from the water.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The short answer is yes, most humans will be able to outrun a crocodile. \u201cMost crocodiles can achieve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-218133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}