Size comparisons

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(05-10-2022, 09:14 PM)LonePredator Wrote: If you mean literally all lengths and weights then there are many lengths and weights available of saltwater crocodiles and maybe for Nile Crocodiles as well but for other species, it’s very scare. I’ll look for it.

And if you mean the maximum reliably recorded lengths and weights for species then lengths are available but weights are not.

For the maximum lengths, we have 617cm Saltwater Crocodile and 563cm Mugger and a 655cm Gharial (interestingly, that specimen was found in my hometown) that’s it. For other crocodilian species, we have no truly reliable records of specimens exceeding 5 metres but perhaps there is a record of a Nile Crocodile which I’ll have to look around for.

But we must remember that there will be a huge difference between length and size because a 5 metre Orinoco Crocodile will not even come close to a 5 metre Mugger in terms of weight because of very different morphologies.

Yes, I mean it. Literally every single record avaialble, captive or wild, only adults. I know that it sounds like a titanic work, maybe even silly, but I do it with all tiger subspecies and while it took years for me, I think that it will be a good work. I guess that no one, ever, has done this. We can make history with a project like that, but who is going to make it? That is the question now.

By the way, very interesting that your hometown was the home of the largest gharial! Reply