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Saltwater Crocodile - Data, Pictures and Videos
Saltwater Crocodile - Data, Pictures and Videos
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Saltwater Crocodile - Data, Pictures and Videos
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The saltwater crocodile, also known as saltie crocodile, is the largest of all living reptiles, as well as the largest terrestrial and riparian predator in the world. The males of this species can reach sizes of up to 23 ft. and weigh as much as 2,000 kg. Saltwater crocodiles are known for preying on humans.
Share information, data, pictures and videos of these huge predators  *This image is copyright of its original author Image Courtesy- Doclights/Grospitz & Westphalen / Martin Seewer 
Recently watched a documentary on the capture of Lolong and the accompanying drama. Turns out many of the locals
claim Lolong was not the man-killer they were hunting, that there was another bigger croc still out there. Estimates of up to 29 ft. Wow
Interesting, Though i less believe in documentary and claims by locals on these documentary. They are made to hit the shows, 29 ft is unlikely to be true length for crocs. But who knows the truth.
Excellent new topic, I like very much the large reptiles. I will post some data that I showed in other place here about the size of this giants.
It is interesting to mention that there are very few reliable sizes in literature and that there are not reliable records of crocodiles over 6.5 m long and over 1.2 tons. I will put the data, and you will judge by yourselves. [img]images/smilies/wink.gif[/img]    *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author 
The first pic is an American crocodile.
http://www.villascostarica.com/blog/2010...ture-tour/ http://rense.com/general94/friend.htm
I see it on internet today
Crocodile measuring 8.6m (28ft). Shot by a hunter in Queensland, Australia in 1957.  *This image is copyright of its original author I tried to search more info about it. But got noting, May be other member can help.
Mmmm, that image looks like hoax: crocodile very close and the people very far.
In fact, none of the specimens in this topic is larger than 4, maybe 5 meters long. In fact, the largest crocodiles actually measured are between 6 to 6.5 m, probably 7 m "estimated", but 8 m, surely not. I will put the pages from Guinness for reference.
People in a village on the Niger River in Africa were losing fellow villagers at a rapid rate, and called in the army, which shot a > 7 m, 1200 Kg crocodile.
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(08-27-2014, 01:30 AM)'Pckts' Wrote: Note the terrified look on the face of the - soon to be devoured - victim in picture # 2. Thats photo journalism for ya. 
Several years ago, i read in a book called "Krokodile" (crocodiles) from Leonard Lee Rue III about an horrifying incident on a burmese island at the end of ww 2. In the book it was described as biggest massacre in the history of crocodile attacks, where only 20 of about 1000 japanese soldiers survived the night, after the attack occured.
A detailed description from spydersden.wordpress: In the annals of our World Wars, there have been many atrocities committed by our kind against each other. Yet one of the bloodiest and most horrifying massacres in the history of the war came not from the hands human beings, but from the jaws and teeth of the animal kingdom. During World War II on one remote island in the South Pacific, a platoon of nearly a thousand armed Japanese troops entered crocodile infested swamps and most never returned; a disappearance that would make it the single greatest instance of carnage caused by animals in history.For 6 weeks during January and February of 1945, the swamp-covered island of Ramree, located in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of Burma, was the setting for a bloody battle between Japanese and Allied forces. The Battle of Ramree Island was part of the Burma Campaign during World War II, and was launched to dislodge Japanese Imperial forces that had invaded the island in 1942. On January 26, 1945, British Royal Marine units accompanied by the 36th Indian Infantry Brigade pushed into the enemy occupied island in an effort to establish an airbase there. They were met with stiff resistance from the Japanese, and vicious fighting ensued.After a long and bloody battle, the Allied troops managed to gain the upper hand, flanking a Japanese stronghold and flushing out an estimated 1,000 Japanese troops. The defeated Japanese soldiers abandoned their base and made a beeline across the island in the hopes of merging with a much larger Japanese battalion on the other side. Since the British were flanking them on all sides, the Japanese decided to cut straight through dense tidal swampland to reach their objective, ignoring all appeals by the British for their surrender. It was to be the beginning of a horrific ordeal for the enemy troops, and most would never be heard from again. The soldiers were slowed by the thick, muck-filled swamps that slowed their progress. In addition, many of the men began to succumb to tropical diseases carried by the swarms of mosquitoes as well as the various poisonous spiders, snakes and scorpions that skittered and slithered through the muddy underbrush. Over the course of several days of struggling through the swamps in this manner, starvation and a lack of drinking water became a very real threat as well. All the while they were harassed by sporadic artillery fire from British forces positioned at the edges of the swampland.This was to be merely the beginning of their nightmare. One night British troops patrolling the periphery of the swampland reported hearing panicked screams of terror and gunfire emanating from within the darkness. It quickly became apparent that somewhere out there in the dark swamp, the Japanese troops were being attacked by some evil menace. The British troops stationed there cringed in horror despite the fact that it was being unleashed upon their enemy.  *This image is copyright of its original author Unfortunately for the Japanese troops, the swamps of Ramree were infested by countless, very large saltwater crocodiles, which can grow upwards of 20 feet long and over a ton in weight. The weary and bloodied soldiers thrashing clumsily through the swamps may as well have been a dinner bell ringing. The soldiers were viciously and mercilessly attacked by the reptiles, and survivors reported how swarms of the aggressive animals descended upon them as terrified soldiers fired blindly in all directions in a futile effort to drive off their ravenous aggressors. Some reports from survivors described how the crocodiles would often appear out of nowhere from the murky water to drag screaming and thrashing men to their doom. The mosquito-clouded air was reported to be filled with the sounds of gunfire, snapping jaws, and the horrible gurgling cries of men being ripped to shreds, as the soldiers tried desperately to escape a fate worse than facing the Allied troops. The naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright described the scene unfolding in his 1962 book Wildlife Sketches Near and Far:"That night was the most horrible that any member of the M.L. [marine launch] crews ever experienced. The crocodiles, alerted by the din of warfare and the smell of blood, gathered among the mangroves, lying with their eyes above water, watchfully alert for their next meal. With the ebb of the tide, the crocodiles moved in on the dead, wounded, and uninjured men who had become mired in the mud.The scattered rifle shots in the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles, and the blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on earth. At dawn the vultures arrived to clean up what the crocodiles had left…Of about 1,000 Japanese soldiers that entered the swamps of Ramree, only about 20 were found alive."Of the nearly 1,000 Japanese troops that had entered the swamp, it was said that only 20 survivors crawled out alive, some of them badly injured and mauled. It’s uncertain just how many of the doomed soldiers met their demise in the gaping jaws of crocodiles rather than the myriad other dangers lurking in the swamp. Regardless of what the numbers are, the incident was impressive and horrifying enough for the Guinness Book of World Records to crown it with the distinction of being the “Most Number of Fatalities in a Crocodile Attack.”The remarkably violent and ominous incident at Ramree Island has earned it an almost legendary status right alongside similar stories from WWII such as mass shark attacks on the shipwrecked crew of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35), which holds the distinction of being the largest amount of shark attacks on humans in history. Ramree Island still continues to instill a sense of fear even all of these years later. For now, the island is quiet. The crocodiles are still there, and perhaps so are the ravaged ghosts of the fallen soldiers that met their bloody doom there all of those years ago.However, the offical story has been doubted, i too think this sounds exaggerated at some parts. Especially the number of victims. Dehydration, ilness and exhaustion played for sure a important role for the death of many soldiers, but crocodiles (and other animals like snakes) did possibly also had a big impact and were responsible for perhaps dozen's -or even hundred's- of dead soldiers, if certain circumstances were given. Swamplands are one of the scarriest places on earth only to watch, i won't imagine how terryifing it would be passing such places in phyisically (and mentaly) bad condition...  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Pictures from Ramree, looks like a typical swamp delta, with the typical sundarbans "feeling" even by watching it[img]images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img] A very fitting summary i found was this: [font]In many Indo-Pacific regions, saltwater crocodiles are feared even more than sharks. They do, on occasion, attack people. Ramree Island is itself not far from the Burmese coast. It stands to reason that such a large number of crocodiles, when disturbed and confronted with a widespread smell of blood, would react with deadly force. And further, crocodiles like to feed at night. The Japanese troops spent three nights in the swamp. There is therefore much circumstantial evidence in support of Wright's account. Exactly how many men were killed by crocodiles, rather by than the myriad other perils, can never be known. But Wright's testimony has endured, in all its nightmarish glory. [/font] From "Sunset on Ramree by Robert Appleton" http://www.robertappleton.co.uk/sunsetonramree.htm  (09-20-2014, 09:14 AM)'GuateGojira' Wrote: Mmmm, that image looks like hoax: crocodile very close and the people very far. Indeed. If you look at the 28 footer, you will see that the legs on the crocodile are disportionately large compared to the rest of the crocodile compared to other large crocodile pictures you will see. As you can see below, this is a 16+ footer and you can see, the larger the crocodile is, the smaller the legs get. Tiny limbs below  *This image is copyright of its original author {Below}This is a picture of an 11 foot long crocodile, as you can see, the legs are longer looking compared to its mass.  *This image is copyright of its original author
I don't think that would be a correct way to determine the size of a croc, I certainly don't believe that croc is a 28'er but here you can see the alleged 20'er and its limbs are just as long compared to its body as any other croc I have seen.
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