Today i will discuss about the effect of temperature on the gender discrimination of crocodile. It is very interesting topics that temperature maintain the sex of crocodile. Believe it or not the
temperature indicates the sex of baby crocodile after hatching egg. This phenomenon is known as TSD (temperature sex determination. when the babies of crocodile kept in around 31.7°-34.5° C , then it became male. But above 34.5°C then it became female crocodile. So, there's only about a 3 degree range in which males will occur, which has a major impact on the long-term survival of crocodiles.
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