Saltwater Crocodile - Data, Pictures and Videos

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(01-26-2019, 01:10 AM)brotherbear Wrote: I hope this is not considered as "off topic", not my intentions. But, is there really much of a size difference between a salty and a Nile crocodile?

The salty and the Nile croc are the two biggest extant crocs, the salty being a little bit longer in average. But look at the famous contemporary "Gustave", Nile croc from Burundi, more than 5m50 long, may be more than 6 meters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_(crocodile)

At the beginning of the XXth century about the Nile crocs they was said to be able to reach 6 or seven meters long. Tales or veridic accounts from this epoch when the Nile crocs were much more numerous than today ? Because of the intensiv hunting their average life is shorter, and thus, growing up all their life, chances to see one "monster big croc" are much more reduced. Reply