Mod version: 1.4.1
Forge version: 36.0.1

Sometimes crocodiles can keep doing the swirling animation and damaging the player even if the player is far away.

This happens when the player "dismounts" the crocodile while this is mid animation, it needs a few tries but is reproducible.

https://imgur.com/LNxlj6z

As a side note, I've also noticed that crocodiles tend to bypass shields, even when in front of you..
If I may give a suggestion, make crocodiles disable shields, but also get stun for a second or so, giving the player the opportunity of attack or run.. of course, this only works in a 1 vs 1 scenario, multiple crocos will still be a menace.