1) Nile crocodile origami towel in Cairo, Egypt.

2) In an unusual ambush, a Nile crocodile grabbed onto an elephant's trunk at an African water hole this summer. See which animal came out alive.

3) The eye of a Nile crocodile. The eye is highly efficient at night; by day the pupil narrows to a slit.

4) In an unusual ambush, a Nile crocodile grabbed onto an elephant's trunk at an African water hole this summer.

5) This vigilant yellow eye belongs to a Nile crocodile, a fearsome hunter perfected by epochs of evolutionary trial and error.

6) Even the apparent eating of children provokes a shudder of revulsion, as in the habits of the Nile crocodile.

7) There was a life-or-death struggle for a pair of African elephants when they were ambushed by a hungry Nile crocodile in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park this summer.

8) A villager of Gatumba, Burundi, displays a photograph of an infamous Nile crocodile known as Gustave as workers in the background wade in the Rusizi River.

9) A routine trip to the water hole recently resulted in a life-or-death struggle for a pair of African elephants when they were ambushed by a hungry Nile crocodile (pictured).