Small salties can gallop at a speed of 48 kph for short distances.

Males of Gharials and Salties mature at three and a half metres and females at three metres.

Salties breed in April and Gharials between the last week of March to the second week of April.

The gestation for a Mugger is 35-40 days and for Gharials and Salties, 40-65 days.