8 Commonly Confused Animals

Alligator/Crocodile

If “after a while” of reading through these pairs you haven’t yet said “see ya later,” then we commend you for sinking your teeth so deeply into this article. Not as deep as a crocodilian might, but that’s understandable. Crocodilians—a group of reptiles that includes crocodiles and alligators, as well as caimans and gharials, among others—are undisputed masters of what we like to call, in what may not be a technical phrase, the ol’ clomp and chomp.