Saltie - What does it mean?
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(Australia, informal) A (or estuarine crocodile).
* 1998 , Romulus Whitaker, Zai Whitaker, Crocodile Fever: Wildlife Adventures in New Guinea , Orient Longman, India,
* 2010 , Lindsay Marsh, Dangerous Aussie Animals ,
* 2010 , Nancy Cushing, Kevin Markwell, Snake-Bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park ,
* 2011 , A.J. Mackinnon, The Well at the World?s End ,
saltie
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(en noun)page 8,
- ‘Salties'’ typically live in and around the coastal mangroves but are not uncommon hundreds of kilometres inland. A ' saltie grows to around seven metres in length and is the main Asian crocodile responsible for attacks on humans.
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- They like to spend their time in freshwater rivers in coastal waters. Saltwater crocodiles are fiercely territorial and fully mature male salties' force younger and smaller ' salties into the ocean where they have to search for river systems.
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- It is feared by those who live near it. For its part, the saltie fears nothing — except a larger crocodile.
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- For their part, the others had been earnestly pointing out that there were in fact two types of crocodiles, saltwater and freshwater, and that only the salties were dangerous.
