Crocodile and Big cats Interaction

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(10-17-2018, 06:20 PM)Shadow Wrote: I made a picture to compare in rough way. Here in photo is replica of Lolong, a crocodile 6m 17cm long. And there is a tiger from above, I scaled tiger as relatively big, from nose to back about 2 meters without tail.

Tiger is not in straight position and I tried to pay attention to it. But this hopefully gives a little bit perspective to it, that what kind of sizes we are talking about with biggest known crocs. And also, that what is crocodile torso size and head size there. Red lines are meters, blue lines feet. I made those pictures just for personal curiosity.

6m 17 cm is 20,24 feet btw.

Nice work @Shadow 
Another thing to note is that Lolong when alive would be far more dense and robust compared to a taxidermy.

@parvez 
I will not try to judge accurately the size of a mugger or any croc based off a video with little to scale from.
All I can go off of is actual verified sizes, and a mugger at "The average size of adult mugger crocodiles in Manghopir, Pakistan was cited as 2.89 m (9 ft 6 in), with an estimated average weight of around 100 kg (220 lb).[13] However, some muggers of around 3 m (9 ft 10 in) may weigh 195 kg (430 lb), as was one male caught by pakistani forestry, wildlife and fisheries department" isn't going to be comparable to a Saltie that is verified to be double the length and at 5x's the weight. 

A couple of interesting facts on Salties size

-If detached from the body, the head of a very large male crocodile can reportedly weigh over 200 kg (440 lb) alone, including the large muscles and tendons at the base of the skull that lend the crocodile its massive biting strength. (That's as heavy as a 9'10'' mugger)

-The weight of a crocodile increases approximately cubically as length increases (see square-cube law).[38] This explains why individuals at 6 m (19 ft 8 in) can weigh more than twice that of individuals at 5 m (16 ft).[26] In crocodiles, linear growth eventually decreases and they start getting bulkier at a certain point.[39] Dominant males also tend to outweigh others, as they maintain prime territories with access to better, more abundant prey. (Already being a more robust individual, they continue to put on mass while their growth slows)


My opinion is that a Tiger wouldn't want to have to fight off a large Mugger in the water, but it could do so, the same way you see Male Lions fight off smaller Nile Crocs in the water sometimes, but if a large Saltie wanted to prey on a Lion/Tiger in the water, there is little any cat could do about that. On land, I still doubt a cat could finish off a large Croc as well, the cat could do some damage but eventually that Croc will drag that Cat right into the water and the cat will have let go long before that happens.  Reply