2002, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould, “Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution”, in Tiiu Ojasoo, transl.,[1997, Les avatars du gène: La théorie néodarwinienne de l'évolution],page28:
Cuvier had begun studying the fossils of crocodiles found near Caen and Honfleur in France. (They were, in fact,gavials, fine-jawed crocodiles that are nowadays found in India).
Although human remains and jewelry have been found in their stomachs,gavials are not as fierce as many alligators and crocodiles.
2011, Joseph T. Springer, Dennis Holley,An Introduction to Zoology: Investigating the Animal World,page415:
Gavials (or gharials) are found only on the northern Indian subcontinent, where most areriverine, being best adapted to calmer areas in deep fast-flowing rivers.
Technically, extending the definition to familyGavialidae results in including just one other extant species: thefalse gavial (Tomistoma schlegelii). However, the subfamilyTomistominae is often (perhaps usually) excluded from Gavialidae.
1862 December 10, “Amolação ou fragmentos das memorias do barão do Aroiche”, inCorreio Paulistano, volume IX, number1978, São Paulo,page 2, column 4:
Na verdade, sr. redactor, o tal barão a princinio tem tantas melurias e afagos, que deixa facinar atè aquelles que como eu, é contra as bajulaçõe[s]; porque são tantos os seus carinhos e dôces palavras, que faz-me lembrar, (hoje que bem o conheç[o]) — a astucia dos crocodilos ougacial[sic – meaninggavial], cujos animaes derramão lagrimas quando se apoderão da presa.
Actually, Mr. Editor, the so-called baron comes with so many flatteries and caresses that he fascinates even people like me, who are against adulations; because his caresses and sweet words are so many that it reminds me (now that I know him well) the cunning of the crocodiles, orgavial, that shed tears when they seize their prey.
1867 October 24, “A cholera”,A Gazetilha, inPublicador Maranhense, volume XXVI, number244, São Luís,page 2, column 5:
Fundado nesta observação o Sr. Cretagne enviou á sociedade protectora dos animaes uma memoria em que sustenta que a causa da frequente invasão da cholera é terem os inglezes extinguido quasi completamente ogavial gangetico, especie de reptil pertencente á familia dos saurios, que vive só de carnes mortas.
Based on this observation, Mr. Cretagne sent a memoir to the animal welfare society where he sustains that the cause of the frequent cholera invasion is the English having almost completely extincted the Gangeticgavial, a species of repitle belonging to the saurian family that lives on dead meat.
2015 September 8, Oliver Milman, “Atividade humana pode extinguir metade das espécies de crocodilos do mundo”, inO Eco[1], Rio de Janeiro, archived fromthe original on2021-03-27:
Ogavial, uma espécie de nariz longo que come peixes, sofre com a destruição de seu habitat na Índia. Construções nas margens e dragagem do rio Ganges têm enorme impacto sobre esta espécie, assim como o uso indiscriminado de pesca com rede.
Thegavial, a long-nosed species that eats fish, suffers with the destruction of its habitat in India. Buildings at the banks and dredging of the Ganges river have an enormous impact on this species, as wel as the indiscriminate use of net fishing.
