INVASION OF THE CROCODILES - Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities - page 250

4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0

1971-80 1981-90 1991-2000 2001-2010

Fatal Non-fatal Total attacks

FIGURE 15.2 Saltwater crocodile attacks on humans (average per year) in Australia,
1971-2010.
Source: Adapted from Manolis et al . (2013).

15%

May to July (dry/cool)
August to October (dry/warm)
November to April (wet/warm)

56%

29%

FIGURE 15.3 Seasonality of saltwater crocodile attacks in northern Australia
(1971-2010).
Source: Adapted from Manolis et al . (2013).

Conclusion

Considering their long evolutionary and prehuman history on the continent,
crocodiles cannot convincingly be described as 'aliens' in Australia, and they have
seldom been so described in the historical literature. It is only on very short-term
human timescales that they could be described as 'invaders' intruding into 'places