r/Crocodiles

What are the biological effects of extremely high temperatures, such as a fire, on reptiles, preferably Alligators? What is the most pressing danger from the abnormal conditions? What might hinder the animal from escaping the heat source? TIA!
(Note: This is for a mostly scientific story on extinct animals, I am not planning to incinerate any reptiles in real life. Cheers.)

It was some remote backwater villiage and they opened one up and there is a human head. They pull it out and it is just a torso like a bag of flesh and they dump it in a sack.

And another one where a croc is casually smimming with a naked man in it's jaws.

I was terrified.

Not sure if everyone has seen this, Croc threw a tantrum after missing out a meal.

https://reddit.com/link/1vkcrs0/video/yx7t2o14phih1/player

This YouTube video is about 7-8 years old and says Malaysia. Never mind the vertical filming. This croc has to be the biggest I’ve seen on video. I’m not sure I’d go out on that dock either.

Not my video but damn..

So by my best understanding you can actually swim in water that has fresh water crocodile, given they mainly hunt fish and smaller vertebrates and there smaller size they won't attack humans unless provoked.

Now the thing is gharials are even more fish specialised, they do get CONSIDERABLY bigger. However I feel as though if it was a well fed gharial, in clear water, no near a nest and with enough space you would be relatively fine. Obviously if you happened to startle one while swimming/tried to touch it or if you where close to its nest or hatchlings you might cop a bite.

But hypothetically in a best case scenario do you think you could swim with a gharial completely fine?