Massive Great White

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(06-16-2015, 09:51 PM)'chaos' Wrote: And, I'll restate that estimates are routinely exaggerated by the most knowledgeable of experts. Need I cite "Gustav"
the croc as a prime example of just that, along with countless other "guestimates". What you posted is nothing more
than educated heresy. I'll leave it at that. 

 

"educated heresy" Hearsay is a Rumor, An Educated Guess is "a guess based on knowledge and experience and therefore likely to be correct."

Considering Gustav has never been seen up close or been able to scale him against anything, how are they the same?

Deep blue was seen up close by numerous Marine Biologists and specialists who knew every shark in the vicinity, was able to directly scale against human beings and a boat that was 22' long, so how are the equal?

And Gustav's estimations from experts seem very possible and are extremely far from "hearsay" considering the credentials of the people who made the estimates below.
"Faye estimates that the massive croc measures 20 feet (6 meters) long, weighs one ton (907 kilograms), and is 60 years old (wild crocs, on average, live to age 45). Trained herpetologists agree that Gustave could be that large and that he is certainly one of the most infamous man-eaters of all time."
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/advent...ticle.html

"Faye has been studying Burundi's crocodiles for two decades"

"Barr's credentials include a doctorate in biology and the distinction of being the only researcher to have bagged all 23 species of crocodilians."






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