Crocodile and Big cats Interaction

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(08-15-2020, 08:52 PM)Bitishannah Wrote: Kleptoparasitism by Morelets croc on jaguar kill.

Here is a detailed description of this observation:

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However, Morelet's crocodiles are not only able to take prey from jaguars at the water's edge. Here is a recent observation of an adult Morelet's crocodile preying on a young jaguar in Belize:

Quote:Cancun.- The President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, published on his Twitter account a video in which a crocodile chases and reaches a jaguar in the Cobá lagoon.
"Sometimes the kingdom of nature is cruel, look at the desperate and useless flight of a young jaguar that faced a lizard in the Cobá lagoon, Quintana Roo," the president wrote.

The video is one minute long, shot from afar. There you see a jaguar, swimming in the lagoon, in vain trying to reach the shore, with a crocodile following it, which reaches it and attacks.
Uploaded last night, the video already has 336 thousand views.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1233943046892462080

Marisa Tellez from CSG also knows about two similar observations:

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