Crocodile and Big cats Interaction

[parvez]

(10-16-2018, 09:24 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(10-16-2018, 07:21 AM)parvez Wrote: @Pckts There is no 1000 kgs difference between mugger and saltie. The biggest mugger and saltie may have difference of around 200-300 kgs i guess. The mugger crocodile machli killed was a 14 foot one. Your captive saltie is 5 metres, only 2 feet longer than the mugger. I agree salt water crocs have higher biteforce and are more aggressive but what a 150kg tigress can do can't a 300 kgs tiger kill a 20 feet croc? Even brother bear said machi killed a monster. Then much bigger tigers can clearly kill 20 feet saltie ofcourse not in deep water but on land but has the ability to steal salties prey in deep water. Ofcourse they may not be able to kill saltie in deep water.

A few things to remember, the Mugger Croc, Machli killed was never weighed nor measured, the estimated size of 14' was nothing other than just that, an estimation from a photographer who has no real background w/crocs. 
I have had a few discussions on the matter as well, if you were to give Machli the benefit of the doubt and say she is on the upper tier of Tigress measurements and you were to call her 9' TBL, it still doesn't look like the Croc is an additional 5' longer than Total Length of Machli (Tail Included.)
Realistically, that Mugger was more along the lines of 12' which I still feel is more than what it actually was, since the actual largest Mugger ever caught was 12'2'', I'm sure there are much larger ones overall but compared to a Saltie that was a legitimate 16'er and was 750kg, a large Mugger at 12' and 200kg is not in the same league.

If you see wikipedia page of mugger crocodile, it says males are around 13 to 14 feet long. you say the largest was 12 feet. That was the largest specimen in english museum. It is written a 5metre  long mugger can scale upto 700kgs, only 50kgs short of saltie you quoted. It does look like 12-14 feet crocodile as its tail is longer in the video and his skull is around 2feet. But i am surprised to see the estimate of 200kgs for 12feet crocodile. Rest of debate is ok. Reply