Crocodile and Big cats Interaction

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(08-15-2020, 09:21 PM)Balam Wrote: Jaguars as natural predators for sub-adult Orinoco crocodiles:

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@epaiva, you may be interested in this

"Within sub-adults, Gumilla (1791) and Godshalk and Sosa (1978) site the jaguar and anaconda as their predators. Cannibalism in crocodiles has been mentioned by Antelo (2008) by localizing the signal from the radio emissions carried by a sub-adult inside the belly of an adult female..."

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It makes sense for jaguars and anacondas to prey on sub-adult specimens of similar sizes to common caiman, maybe a little bit bigger, but the size range of crocodiles that may fall prey to jaguars is unknown due to lack of data and a reduced population that keeps us from studying their interactions in more details, sub-adults in the study, however, are considered to measure between 0.6 to 2.5 meters. The same paper mentions three reports of crocodiles from the 20th and 19th centuries which measured 5.8, 6.78, and 6.96 cm in length respectively.

Full study in Spanish: https://www.researchgate.net/publication...ntermedius

@Balam
Very valuable information, thanks for sharing Reply