Crocodile and Big cats Interaction

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(10-18-2020, 03:10 PM)TheSmok Wrote:

(08-15-2020, 08:52 PM)Bitishannah Wrote: Kleptoparasitism by Morelets croc on jaguar kill.

Here is a detailed description of this observation:

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However, Morelet's crocodiles are not only able to take prey from jaguars at the water's edge. Here is a recent observation of an adult Morelet's crocodile preying on a young jaguar in Belize:

Quote:Cancun.- The President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, published on his Twitter account a video in which a crocodile chases and reaches a jaguar in the Cobá lagoon.
"Sometimes the kingdom of nature is cruel, look at the desperate and useless flight of a young jaguar that faced a lizard in the Cobá lagoon, Quintana Roo," the president wrote.

The video is one minute long, shot from afar. There you see a jaguar, swimming in the lagoon, in vain trying to reach the shore, with a crocodile following it, which reaches it and attacks.
Uploaded last night, the video already has 336 thousand views.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1233943046892462080

Marisa Tellez from CSG also knows about two similar observations:

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/14776098...6579923622

Morelet's crocodiles over 3m are really big one. They are also normally lighter than 100 kg. Most of accidents were probably subadult jaguars. It's not likely that an adult Central American jaguar weighing 50-60 kg will be kill by a Morelet's crocodile unless they were in a deep water. Reply