Translation of savage in Spanish

One hour later people were starting to leave and we did not exactly understand why. We took another drink and I paid the bar man cash. Later it turned out that the change he gave me would be fake money.
It is better to loose two dollars than a leg to some stupid crocodile. We moved on and the boat driver took us to a farm close to the floating village. There were all sorts of animals.
Thank you for your answer, your English is better than my Spanish. I live in Liverpool in Great Britain, that is a town around 300 kilometers north of London. My wife and I have 4 children.