Did you know …
That alligators and crocodiles are exactly the same? It’s true!
Apparently the misconception regarding separate species of crocodilians had something to do with branding and splitting the Crocodile Dundee franchise into an additional moneymaking film series (i.e., Alligators Dundee) and also because there was a strong public desire for a simple way to tell the crocodiles that would eat you from the crocodiles that apparently weren’t interested in eating you.
Neither idea panned out—Alligators Dundee was removed from the Dundeeverse in the official Crocodile Dundee animated series when he was eaten by a hippopotamus, and it turned out that pretty much any alligator/crocodile would try to eat you after a while—but the ersatz classification stuck.
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