Size comparisons

[LonePredator]

(04-25-2022, 11:46 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(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.

Definitely, I completely agree. People say that Machli was very big and unusually strong and she fought males which may be true but I have not seen anything to completely confirm these things as of yet.


And yes, since the 9ft 10inch (300cm) crocodile was 195kg then a 350cm one should be about 309kg (The exponent will not be exactly 3 but between 2.8 to 3.3 so there could be some deviation)

And based on the only single mugger specimen that we know about, we know from that a mugger should be quite heavier than a saltwater crocodile at equal length (but we don’t have enough real weights).

This should still be taken with a grain of salt as this formula has only been tested on saltwater crocodiles and we don’t know if it will give a precise enough result for Muggers or not and also the weight of only 1 Mugger specimen is available so we don’t know what the usual weight of a 300cm Mugger would be. This is because all crocodiles are not similar in proportion but perhaps they get bulkier as they get longer.

I had read somewhere that saltwater crocodiles are approximately 300-400kg on average so this crocodile killed by Machli could have almost been around the weight of an average saltwater crocodile which is truly amazing. This proves that the Tigress Machli was indeed amazing. Reply