If we’d approach the ways we see, hear, sense and imagine art and the world around us as an ‘ecosystem of attention’ – would we discover a conceptual landscape populated with animals, plants and objects that somehow clarifies the media character of the cultural ecosystems we embody? In search of answers, we follow a single trope: the crocodile, a predator that devours language and culture to then retreat like a heavy, taciturn creature to the river bottom of many books and films.