Editing Crocodile (section)

===Cognition===
Crocodiles possess some advanced cognitive abilities.<ref name="LA">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-clever-crocodiles-alligators-sticks-twigs-birds-lure-prey-20131206-story.html|title=Scary smart! Clever crocodiles, alligators use sticks to lure prey|author=Amina Khan|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=6 December 2013}} 6 December 2013</ref><ref name="Wash">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/crocodiles-and-their-ilk-may-be-smarter-than-they-look/2013/12/06/1084cf28-5d2c-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html|title=Crocodiles and their ilk may be smarter than they look|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|author=Jason G. Goldman}} 9 December 2013</ref> Crocodiles [[cooperative hunting|cooperatively hunt]]. <ref name="One">{{cite web|url=http://www.oneworldmagazine.org/tales/crocs/smart.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000930224445/http://www.oneworldmagazine.org/tales/crocs/smart.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 September 2000|title=The Crocodile Files|work=One World Magazine}}</ref> Large numbers of crocodiles swim in circles to trap fish and take turns snatching them. In hunting larger prey, crocodiles swarm in, with one holding the prey down as the others rip it apart.

[[Vladimir Dinets]] of the [[University of Tennessee]], observing crocodile's use of [[Tool use by animals#In reptiles|twigs as bait]] was inconclusive. <ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Dinets|first1=Vladimir |last2=Brueggen
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|first3=J.D.  |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271994159|date=December 2013|title=Crocodilians use tools for hunting|journal=[[Ethology Ecology & Evolution]]|volume=27|issue=1|pages=74–78|publisher= www.[[researchgate]].net|doi=10.1080/03949370.2013.858276}}
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