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Light may influence morning basking behaviour in captive gharials
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- Like all crocodilians, Gangetic gharials regulate their body temperature using external heat sources.
- They warm their enormous bodies, which can grow to 15 to 20 feet in length, by basking on sandbanks, making it an important daily activity.
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