Saltwater Crocodile - Data, Pictures and Videos

[Sanju]

(01-26-2019, 12:34 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote:

(01-25-2019, 10:55 PM)Sanju Wrote: where are the current largest and heaviest living wild salties population  in the world? @epaiva australia/philippines/indonesia???

I read that the salties from South India were also huge, perhaps as large as their eastern counterparts.

I live in east coast of South India. I never heard of such big crocs, in fact they are rare from 1950's and in our state they are only found in some coastal zones. In past month, some fisherman caught a small croc juvenile about 2 mts in our district. I think you understood why they are low, coz they will be killed on site.

Most of the mangrove sanctuaries are empty without them like [https://www.indianholiday.com/wildlife-india/pulicat-sanctuary.html], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulicat_Lake_Bird_Sanctuary], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolleru_Bird_Sanctuary], [https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/environment/kolleru-wildlife-sanctuary-faces-threats-52211],
In Coringa, efforts to reintroduce the saltwater crocodile into the sanctuary during the 1970s met with failure and the species has not been present within the sanctuary for over 30 years. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coringa_Wildlife_Sanctuary]

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You can see majority of the mangrove sites are from Krishna and Godavari rivers (major water source to our states), and one of the important occupation is fishing, hence these zones are fishing zones or grounds.

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But I have a beast video from Lanka...

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