Saltwater Crocodile-Great White Shark interactions

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(01-18-2015, 12:26 PM)'Vodmeister' Wrote:

(01-10-2015, 03:37 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: Here is a verified predation of a Large croc on a tiny Bull shark
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...odile.html

The witness states the amount of struggle the tiny shark was able to put up on the much larger croc and how the croc had to work hard to finally kill the shark. Imagine a 16-20 ft long GWS 4000-6000lbs.
Its just not reasonable that a croc would even attempt on such a large animal let a lone be strong enough to hold on to a animal double its own weight. 


 

A 5.5 m (18 ft) great white shark would not weigh 4000 lbs and certainly nowhere near 6000 lbs. If a large recorded 6.0 m (19.7 ft) great white weighed 4200 lbs, then using the square cube law, it scales an 18 ft crocodile down to 3204 lbs.

A 6.1 m (20 ft) saltwater crocodile on the other hand, would weigh approximately 2200 lbs.

 

Excluding the typically exaggerated claims on both, sizewise, 4200 lbs is the absolute limit for gw's and at least 2300+ lbs
(lolong) for crocs. These are the present known limitations, of course that can change in the future.


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