Crocodile and Big cats Interaction

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(10-18-2020, 02:42 PM)TheSmok Wrote: Data on interactions between Bengal tigers and saltwater crocodiles in Sundarban:

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The swimming abilities of tigers are quite surprising.
https://www.academia.edu/8062425/Ecology...Sundarbans

Here are more details about the incident in which an adult tigress was killed by a 14-foot saltwater crocodile in Sundarban:

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http://inet.vidyasagar.ac.in:8080/jspui/...t_IJBS.pdf

And from an older publication from P.K. Pandit:

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http://www.fao.org/3/a-am998e.pdf

I posted that same source last August. So this same case comes up once a year then. I think, that this has been many times here too in different threads so in that way not so interesting to old posters maybe. But what makes it interesting is, that even though this is over a decade old case, it seems to be only really confirmed case known in which a saltwater crocodile has killed a tiger. Naturally environment is what it is, so quite difficult to know how many crocodiles tigers kill there and how many vice versa.

Naturally from Africa it´s well known, that lions kill crocodiles every now and then and some lions are even crocodile killer specialists. If anything can be concluded based on it, I would assume that tigers kill crocodiles too more often than some rare reports tell. Difficult to imagine, that tigress Machli would be only tiger noticing reliable easy prey, especially when on land or shallow water. This is what I think after trying to find out a bit more about interactions between big cats and crocodiles. For sure crocodiles have their moments, but known cases seem to back up more it, that more often big cats are the ones having a meal. Reply