Daintree cow makes lucky escape after kiss with crocodile

A curious Daintree cow has made a lucky escape avoiding becoming lunch after sharing a gentle kiss with a large saltwater crocodile. Watch the viral video here>>

A curious cow made a lucky escape after it shared a quick kiss with a large saltwater crocodile on the banks of the Daintree River in Far North Queensland. Image: Daintree crocodile tours (Instagram)

A curious Daintree cow has made a lucky escape, avoiding becoming lunch after sharing a gentle kiss with a large saltwater crocodile.

The near-miss was captured by the tour guides of Daintree Crocodile tours this week, with the seemingly hapless cow only narrowly avoiding the jaws of the cranky reptile.

In the video a group of cows can be seen by the water’s edge with another dark brown cow wading in the water.

Viewers could be forgiven for looking away thinking they were about to watch something grizzly, straight out of a nature documentary, as a large crocodile slowing floats towards the animal but what happens next is something much more tender.

The cow is unalarmed as the crocodile approaches, with the mammal’s head still low to the water as it checks out what is approaching, well within chomping distance of crocodile’s teeth.

The reptile moves even closer until the two are snout to snout, the mammal gives the cracked scales a quick sniff before the two share a quick peck.

It is after this unlikely moment that the crocodiles jaws reach out of the water in a half-hearted lunge.

Nick Bohm operates Daintree Crocodile Tours and captured the viral footage during one of his trips and said he was lucky to capture the moment on video.

“I’m usually busy being the host so don’t get my phone out much, but it was great to catch something like this,” he said.

“My son told me I needed to get an Instagram account and put the video up and now it has over two million views.”

Mr Bohm said he had seen the crocodile in the area before the video was captured and gave his thoughts as to why the crocodile didn’t get a hold of the bovine.

“We’d been watching him all morning and he had a big fat belly so I think he must have already had a good feed,” he said.

“He was about 3.5 metres, so a good sized croc.

“I think he was basically chasing a bit of shade and the cow happened to be there.”

Mr Bohm said that crocodiles will also often practice stalking even if they aren’t looking for a feed.

“I think the cow just had no idea what it was and had a quick sniff before it realised it was in danger,” he said.

A curious cow made a lucky escape after it shared a quick kiss with a large saltwater crocodile on the banks of the Daintree River in Far North Queensland. Image: Daintree crocodile tours (Instagram)

The Daintree river has a large population of saltwater crocodiles and is well known for its croc spotting around the world.

Mr Bohm has been working on the river for 11 years and has been operating his own tour business for four.

Originally published as Daintree cow makes lucky escape after kiss with crocodile