Death roll

In one of the videos, captured by a zoo visitor Cañete Jie, the tourist can be seen grinning as he approaches the crocodile in the murky waters.

What followed was nothing short of terrifying.

Within seconds, Lalay turns her head, lunges forward, and sinks her powerful jaws into the man’s arm.

Lalay then bit the man’s thigh and performed a death roll – a brutal maneuver crocodiles use to disorient and dismember their prey.

According to the University of Tennessee, “crocodiles can’t chew, so they use a powerful bite coupled with a full-bodied twisting motion – a death roll – to disable, kill, and dismember prey into smaller pieces. The lethal movement is characteristic of both alligators and crocodiles.”