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(04-25-2022, 11:30 PM)LonePredator Wrote: I agree. 13ft is impossible for the crocodile. It is also very difficult to measure the croc from that only picture as only half it’s tail is visible and it’s whole body is curved at every point.
I am guessing 12feet 4inches with a rather optimistic, ‘best case scenario’ guess but it you are more strict in the estimation then it can also be 12 feet or slightly less.
Only if the crocodile was fully visible, a much more concrete estimate would be possible.
That is correct, we only have a partial view of the tail, so I reconstruct it based in pictures of other male muggers and the best estimations were between 11.5 to 12.8 ft. But we need to take in count that all depends also of the size of the tigress, which we don't know. However, what we can assure is that the croc was definitelly over 200 kg, base in the only specimen known, which is already bigger than the biggest tigress recorded (177 kg), so this fight was a feat for the Machli, a very strong tigress.