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04-26-2022, 01:59 AM( This post was last modified: 05-07-2022, 05:52 AM by LonePredator )
(04-26-2022, 01:39 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:
(04-26-2022, 12:37 AM)LonePredator Wrote: 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 apply to 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.
That is a valid point, but according with the source this was a captive specimen from Pakistan:
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As we can see that animal was not a particularly large and healty specimen, that means that the figure of 195 kg for a 3 meters male Mugger maybe an underestimation. Check his photo:
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The animal looks normal, although the tail is not as fat as some wild ones that I have saw in pictures, even the one killed by Machli looks larger than this one.
Yes, I agree that it does not look particularly healthy but is it possible that as crocodiles get longer they also get bulkier?
If this crocodile in Pakistan really weighed less for its length than it should have then this suggests muggers are about twice heavier than saltwater crocodiles at equal lengths which doesn’t seem very likely to me but another thing is that the 300cm weight of Saltwater Crocodiles comes from only an equation so it’s quite possible that it’s also an underestimation.
With that said, I would agree that it’s likely that this crocodile could be underestimation and a saltwater crocodile could be around 160kg at 300cm while a mugger could probably be 220kg. Just a guess.
I took the 3 mugger weights, one of 111kg at 274cm by Brander which you provided just a moment ago. Then I took the 195kg at 300cm and then I took the 750kg at 560cm and then I tested this relation with these weights but it obviously did not match but I would still say that a 350cm mugger should likely be 300kg+ but this one only comes from a single specimen.