Comparing big cats - differences/changes with time

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(08-09-2020, 11:11 AM)Ashutosh Wrote: There are no orinoco crocs recorded in modern times over 5.2 metres and the one which you highlighted from Sundarbans is bigger than the biggest orinoco croc recently because when Guiness measured them, they couldn’t find one over 4.2 metres. It has been claimed they can reach lengths of 5.2 metres, but unless, one measures that big these days, it’s all speculation. Historical figures of Orinoco crocs reaching 20 feet are in the same category of claims as Amur tigers weighing 300 kilos on average (gross exaggeration).

Secondly, Sundarbans is 120 kilometres away from Bhitarkanika which houses some of the largest crocodilians on the planet with at least 4 measuring over 20 feet. There might not be any research on crocs from Sundarbans owing to their small number, but, Bhitarkanika has been watched over extensively.

That is a 3 day swim for any saltwater croc. Are the saltwater crocs in Sundarbans smaller than ones in Bhitarkanika? Sure. But, they aren’t smaller than orinoco crocs who barely even reach 4.5 metres in length these days. Even exceptional mugger crocs are bigger than that.

Larger individuals Orinoco Crocodiles today reach 5 meters long, on a breeding facility they have two very close to 5 meters long and I saw a wild one larger than the ones I saw in the facility, in the good old times a few of them grew a lot larger with the largest one over 6 meters long. Their numbers today a very low about 2000 in Venezuela and 200 in Colombia. Saltwater crocodiles in the Sinderbans are larger for sure. I didn't think Guinness came here to measure them because you can find many over 4,2 meters long and bigger females measure very close to 4 meters long. Reply