TABLE 1.

List of Crocodylus niloticus specimens used in this study. Two specimens were dissected to provide information on architectural properties, mass properties and skeletal geometry. Two specimens were used in the musculoskeletal modelling and so underwent surgical procedures for bead placement, and one specimen was used as the focal specimen in the final musculoskeletal model, with all other modelling details scaled by femoral length to the final model. DDNC07 was not included in the experiments for this study, but its carcass was used to inform segmental inertial properties

Specimen ID	Body mass (kg)	Dissected	CT‐scanned	Underwent surgery	Rigged model	Focal model
DDNC04	3.4	✔	✔	✔	✔
DDNC06	2.9		✔ a			✔
DDNC07	4.4	✔	✔
DDNC10	6.1		✔	✔	✔

^a After euthanasia, this crocodile was iodine‐stained to better visualise muscle paths.