Meanings of gharial in English

Less than 235 gharial survive in the rivers of northern India and Nepal.

Enormous black otter-things with tiny malevolent eyes and twitching ears, long dark muzzles bristling with whiskers and gharial teeth.

Despite conservation efforts, the gharial fresh water crocodile is on the verge of extinction with an estimated 200 mating pairs remaining.

Gharial crocodile slipping into the water just before my canoe crossing.

It would have resembled the critically endangered gharials of modern India and Nepal.

Gharials, for example, often court each other by making a loud buzzing sound.

Gharials take longer to mature; about 8-10 years for the female and 12 years for the male.

Gharial crocodiles may number less than 1,000 individuals in the wild - but there is always hope.

One day Rom and Harry decided to shift the largest male Gharial in the fight with another male during the previous breeding season.

Of course crocs only mate with others of their own species and there is no way a Gharial and mugger will get together.

As we were transferring the male Gharial into a female mugger pit, Harry jokingly yelled: "What do you think we will get-a Ghammer?"