Crocodile and Big cats Interaction

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(07-07-2019, 02:13 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(07-07-2019, 01:14 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(10-18-2018, 07:03 PM)chaos Wrote:

(10-17-2018, 06:30 PM)chaos Wrote:

(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.

Crocs of 3+ meters are more than any big cat can handle. On land, a very difficult task, in the water - a mismatch.
Just my opinion.

Excuse me, my bad. I meant 5+ meters

I found something interesting. Back in 2011, a Sundarban tigress aged 8-10 years was killed after a night-long fight with a 14-foot (about 4.2 m) croc. The report (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home...548432.cms) doesn't say if it was a mugger or saltwater croc, but I know that 14 ft is rather long for a mugger, though not impossible (https://archive.org/details/journalofbom...b/page/296), so more likely this was a SW croc. If it took a 14-ft croc a whole night to defeat a small Sundarban tigress, then I dare say that even the likes of Lolong better not underestimate the fighting capabilities of a huge tiger or lion, such as this tiger at Kaziranga National Park (https://www.123rf.com/photo_16298381_ben...71k3_4yzjc) or this lion at Etosha National Park (https://www.wildlifeadventures.com/namib...mibia.html): 

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This case was here already in some other thread, even though article of Telegraph say, that it was saltwater crocodile and tiger was male. Story of Telegraph is more realistic for me, because I don´t believe a moment for some fight over night. Tiger and crocodile fighting for hours and hours.... that is so unnatural thing to imagine, that impossible to take seriously. But maybe a fierce battle of 10-30 minutes max. and then dead tiger there, that seems to be clear that tiger was killed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8695915/Fifteen-foot-Bengali-crocodile-claims-king-of-jungle-title-from-tiger.html

Then again one thing. When comparing a 14-15 feet and 20 feet crocodiles it is good to remember, that weight of crocodile increases a lot, when it gets bigger. In water that means, that tiger or lion is like a rag doll if croc gets a good bite and starts to roll. Of course already a 14-15 feet crocodile is very dangerous in water, but those 20 feet crocs are in their own class, when side by side with smaller ones.

There is nevertheless an anomaly in the report by The Telegraph (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne...tiger.html). The Telegraph, which reported the story on the 11th of August, 2011, in New Delhi (over 1,300 km or 807.8 miles from the Bengali Sundarbans) says that the tiger was male, whereas the local source (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home...548432.cms), which reported the story on the 10th of August in the Bengali city of Kolkata (the city's centre being less than 70 km or 30.4 miles from the nearest point of the Sundarbans), reported that a beat officer said that the tiger's genitals, besides one of its hind legs, were missing. How did The Telegraph in the far away city of ND come to the conclusion that the tiger was male, when a report from within the Bengali region, which contains the Sundarbans, said that the tiger's genitals were missing?

Map of India with the West Bengali administrative city of Kolkata marked, with the Sundarbans being the green area nearby: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kolkat...d88.363895
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