What is implied in the sentence concerning the crocodile: "Crocodile was, in the days when animals still could talk, the acknowledged foreman of all water creatures and if one should judge from appearances one would say that he still is."
A) Crocodile only appears to be as powerful as he once was.
B) Crocodile is likely still as powerful as he once was.
C) Crocodile has probably ceded his foreman duties to other creatures.
D) Crocodile seeming authority is mainly an illusion.