Crocodiles are supremely wily, crafty. Often when coming up to the edge of a river to allow themselves being hand-fed by people who should know better, their heads positioned on high as they swallow the fish being fed, will slowly, almost imperceptibly move back into the water, in the hopes you move in just a little deeper in an effort to continue feeding them, while they're trying to get you deep enough to drag you into the water, grab your head and do a body roll. I see that as the Crocodilian version of Taqiyah.
A friend of mine is a PH in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). He told about he a client with two daughters. They wanted to canoe down the Zambezi. The PH had one of the daughters in his canoe and the father had the other in his canoe.
A large Croc came out of the water and grabbed the 13 year old out of the PH’s canoe.
He found the same croc a couple of days later. Once he killed it he was able to obtain the vitim’s remains.
It was his opinion that the croc actually targeted the girl.