The Australian freshwater crocodile is a fish-eating species with a slender snout that lives only in the small rivers and streams of northern Australia. Measuring three metres long, it is a particularly agile species, able to gallop fast on land. Towards the end of the dry season, the female lays her eggs in a hole dug in a sandbank. Incubation lasts for about eight weeks, and the young hatch just before the arrival of the monsoon rains.