Saltwater Crocodile-Great White Shark interactions

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The buffalo on first video died because of wounds, according to the words of the observer in the comments of original. Second video shows that there are not only large crocodiles are targereting at large buffaloes. Though I can not imagine how this small guy can take a large and healthy adult buffalo. 

Quote:Aside from being much larger than a Croc, GWS are much faster in the water and if we are talking about any depth at all the GWS has a huge advantage since they can dive far deeper and explode up and attack whether at the surface or under water.

Seriously? Crocodiles have the same coefficient of hydrodynamic efficiency as a marine animals. I wrote about this earlier. The maximum recorded swimming speed of the saltwater crocodile is comparable to the maximum recorded swimming speed of the great white shark, especially if we are talking about large sharks. Crocodiles are really underrated as pelagic swimmers.

Quote:GWS can be quite territorial and food aggressive, especially to smaller sharks. 

The same is probably true to any Predator similar in size.

You can see in these videos simmular things as “big crocodile chase a smaller crocodile”. But I have never seen sharks fight and take blows from each other, at least like these territorial males:

Quote:Fights between and man and crocodile is nothing new at the Bhitarkanika wildlife sanctuary in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, famous for the menacing saltwater estuarine crocodiles. But a fierce fight between two crocodiles over territorial and mating rights raised eyebrows on Tuesday.

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One of the two crocodiles is believed to have been killed in the fight that lasted about 20 minutes.
A fierce fight erupted between a giant crocodile and a relatively smaller one that had sneaked into the national park a few days ago from Baitarani river, unaware of the fact that the former rules the area. The entire blood-soaked incident was captured on OST camera.
Provoked by this unwanted intrusion into his territory during the ongoing mating season, the giant crocodile pounced on the smaller one near the Khola river bridge. The muddy waters near the bridge turned red within minutes of the onslaught.
After putting up a valiant fight for a few minutes, the reptile of lesser might was seen stuck in the jaws of the monster crocodile. The latter then went down to the river bed and emerged without the prey after a few minutes suggesting that he had killed the intruder and gave it a watery burial.

https://odishasuntimes.com/war-over-terr...tarkanika/

Quote:The boys were first to spot the buffalo floating down the river and the huge group of crocodiles waiting for their turn to fight for it.

Mr Lehmann said at first there were six crocodiles 'wanting a piece of the action' but it came down to the two huge reptiles in his video in the end.
'The winner then proceeded to push it across the river battling a seven metre outgoing tide to store it for later,' Mr Lehmann said.

More video footage taken after the fight shows the winning crocodile - the large black one -  swimming with the buffalo. 
The fishermen were on the crocodile-infested river catching barramundi when they managed to snap the incredible  footage and photos of the fight.
Mr Lehmann said his son had seen the floating buffalo on the river on Friday - but it hadn't attracted the huge number of hungry crocodiles yet.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...river.html

Quote:“He’d come to the boat to feed and touch the boat with his tail, think it was another croc, and run for his life,” he said. “He was also terrified of logs that looked too much like crocs.”
However, since winning a few fights, he became a boss croc and got his own section of the river.
Mr Wilson said while Nifty and Agro fought fairly often, Agro was well into his 90s and would soon lose. That would mean 5.5m Nifty would be the most dominant croc in the area.
“They will fight to the death eventually, and then the winner will eat the loser to make sure he’s not coming back for another round,” Mr Wilson said.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/scien...c0f1756e83

Quote:Lastly again is the massive size discrepancy between the two

I will note that part of the of a Deep Blue shark body volume is fat accumulated in the liver and embryos (this is a pregnant female).

Quote:Even Lolong who's the largest Saltie Ever captured would only 1/2 the weight of the largest GWS and that is at similar body lengths

Lolong is the largest crocodile ever caught alive, but not the largest recorded crocodile and not even the heaviest crocodile kept in captivity. I know more than 10 skulls of saltwater crocodiles that are larger than the skull of Lolong:

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Source.
If the skull from the Paris Museum (MNHN PMP A11803) belonged to a crocodile with typical proportions for large salties, then this specimen was about 6.84 meters in length and had weigh more than a third more than Lolong. The real average difference in weight between saltwater crocodile and great white shark is about 1/3 as well. Reply