![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The body of crocodile is protected with one inch thick. V) How is the body of the crocodile strong enough to protect him? How was he vulnerable to an attack? Sometimes he went down to the burning ghats and fed on half-burned bodies of Indians cast into the stream. He had also sometimes fed on pi-dog full of parasites and a skeleton cow. The big crocodile fed mostly on fish but had also caught deer, monkeys, and ducks. The young crocodile caught the food and stored it in holes in the river bank. Iv)How did the young crocodile get the food and stored it? What did the big crocodile feed on? The young crocodile faced the dangers of getting eaten by birds of prey and great carnivorous fishes who fed on baby crocodiles. Iii) What were the dangers facing the young crocodile? The young crocodile could escape from predators by instinctively using his skills and fierceness. It means making use of one's craft and ferocity guided purely by natural instinct. Ii) What is meant by brainless craft and ferocity? The crocodile hatched from an egg, probably a hundred years ago, in a sandbank.The crocodile was very active because as soon as he managed to get his head out of his shell he was looking around ready to snap at anything even before he was fully hatched. I) What is said about the birth of the crocodile? How can you say that the crocodile was very active even before he was fully hatched? The crocodile balanced on tiptoe on the rippled sand of the shallows with only his eyes and nostrils raised out of water so that he could see and breathe easily. V) How did the crocodile rest in the shallows? The crocodile is described as "an antediluvian saurian, a prehistoric juggernaut, ferocious and formidable, a vast force in water, propelled by unimaginable and irresistible power of the huge tail", suggests that he was a strong and dangerous animal. Iv) How can you conclude from the extract that the crocodile was a strong and dangerous animal? The crocodile used unimaginable and irresistible power of his huge tail to move in water.His hide was one inch thick and nothing could pierce it.A throb in his throat and his mouth was closed and fixed in evil bony.His colour was blackish brown on above and yellowy white on underside.The crocodile with a huge tail was twice the length of a tall man.Iii) Describe the appearance of the crocodile. Something which has been in existence from very old times and is unstopable It means a large reptile which is very old as if it belonged to the times before the biblical flood. Over the years, the crocodile had grown, from a baby crocodile vulnerable to birds of prey and carnivorous fishes, into a juggernaut so ferocious and formidable that nothing could pierce his inch-thick armoured hide- The author is suggesting that the crocodile is invincible as he is covered with thick-armour like hide which even a bullet cannot pierce.Ī mugger crocodile is a species of freshwater crocodile with a short snout found throughout the Indian subcontinent. What does she mean by the sentence given above? Why does she say so? V) The author says, "Now nothing could pierce the inch-thick armoured hide". The crocodile raised his eyes to get a clear sight of the area around the stepping stones and raised his nostrils to breath easily, this enabled him to lay motionless and concealed, in ambush, for prolonged duration. Iv) Why did the crocodile raise his eyes and nostrils out of water? He lay in the water motionless breathing clean sunny air. He balanced his body on tiptoe on the rippled sand so that only his eyes and nostrils were visible above the He had come to glassy shallows of the river to rest. water of the river where the flowing streams produced whirlpools. Iii) From where did the crocodile come? Why did he come? What was he doing in the shallow waters? Also, floods can lift them and jostle them along. Sleepers that are lying stuck in the stones can be dislodged by delivering sufficient force, manually or mechanically, to the sleepers using a lever like contrivance. Ii) What is meant by dislodge? How can the sleepers be dislodged?ĭislodge is an act of forcefully removing something from its position. British used rivers for transportation of timber, not by boats, but by directly floating them till they reach their destination. Sleepers are rectangular pieces of timber, stone or steel which are specifically cut for construction of building and railway tracks. I) What are sleepers? What made the timber float down the river? ![]()
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