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Post by brobear on Nov 20, 2021 8:42:11 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2021 13:43:18 GMT -5
brobearAs far as I know, when talking about reliable information, Lolong is the longest known crocodile. So what comes to number 1 and 2 in that list, they can´t be verified by anyone. Still a nice video showing some legit "monsters". Then again also giving measurement to Gustave who has never been captured is obviously an estimation too. It would be nice to know how someone has made that estimation. One funny thing what comes to Gustave in that video is that casual mentioning, that he would eat hippos. After all there is just rumors what comes to it. I don´t think that he is big enough to really kill adult hippos easily twice his weight/size, but of course some young ones can be in danger. And there was also something with Brutus. I mean that one theory, that a bull shark would have bitten off his leg. I think, that second theory that another crocodile has done it is more plausible. There is some research done with results, that bull sharks are afraid of crocodiles and flee if noticing a crocodile too close instead of attacking. But if someone has information about some crocodile verified and bigger than Lolong, it would be news for me. I haven´t looked closer in some time, but I think that it is still so, that Lolong is the longest measured crocodile ever.
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Post by brobear on Nov 20, 2021 14:54:29 GMT -5
I believe it was local natives who had given Gustave the moniker, "Hippo Killer" just as locals had called the Bali apes, "Lion Killers."
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Post by brobear on Nov 20, 2021 16:07:58 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Nov 29, 2021 4:32:00 GMT -5
I watched a nature documentary about the Florida Everglades probably about 15 years ago. The Lady/park ranger told of watching a big black bear as he walked from the surrounding woods to cross a body of water. As he was swimming, a huge alligator grabs him and pulls him under. As the water was churning, the ranger thought to herself, "...the loss of a beautiful black bear." But to her surprise, the bear plopped-up like a cork and continued swimming to the opposite bank. When he walked out of the water, the ranger noticed no blood or ill effects on the bear or the way he walked. Then, after a while, the alligator drags himself out of the water. He is all cut-up from the bear's claws. Now, with this said, a Nile crocodile has ( according to test results ) a stronger bite-force than even a salty. He is bigger and meaner than a gator. I was probably wrong ( or my source was wrong ) about the bite force of the Nile over the salty. But, here is a second account of black bear over alligator: First posted by arctozilla books.google.it/books?id=74_1gGrYXA0C&pg=PA311&dq=southern+gentleman+bear+and+alligator+battle+witness&hl=it&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbxJi0n7v0AhXGwKQKHZGwB5YQ6AF6BAgMEAM#v=onepage&q=southern%20gentleman%20bear%20and%20alligator%20battle%20witness&f=false
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Post by brobear on Nov 29, 2021 4:32:56 GMT -5
Reply #264 continued:
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Post by kesagake on Nov 29, 2021 9:50:14 GMT -5
What I never got about alligators is that how did these reptiles get to North America? And how did the Southeastern North America kept a favorable habitat to these crocodilians up today?
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Post by brobear on Nov 29, 2021 9:55:27 GMT -5
What I never get about alligators is that how did these reptiles get to North America? And how did the Southeastern North America kept a habit favorable to these crocodilians up today? Not knowledgeable about the climate part of your question, but alligators and caimans are native to North and South America since the age of dinosaurs. Deinosuchus was a member of the superfamily, Alligatoroidea.
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Post by kesagake on Nov 30, 2021 16:50:15 GMT -5
Reply 264# I actually must give credits to brentlion. He's the first one who posted it.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 10, 2021 5:57:42 GMT -5
What I never get about alligators is that how did these reptiles get to North America? And how did the Southeastern North America kept a habit favorable to these crocodilians up today? Not knowledgeable about the climate part of your question, but alligators and caimans are native to North and South America since the age of dinosaurs. Deinosuchus was a member of the superfamily, Alligatoroidea. The powerful super croc comes from South America too right?
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Post by brobear on Dec 10, 2021 6:07:01 GMT -5
Not knowledgeable about the climate part of your question, but alligators and caimans are native to North and South America since the age of dinosaurs. Deinosuchus was a member of the superfamily, Alligatoroidea. The powerful super croc comes from South America too right? No, Purussaurus was a huge caiman. www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50827002
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Dec 10, 2021 6:11:28 GMT -5
/\ I stand corrected. The Purussaurus must be one of the most powerful predators in its time. It is larger than even the Arctodus Simus.
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Post by brobear on Dec 10, 2021 6:29:50 GMT -5
/\ I stand corrected. The Purussaurus must be one of the most powerful predators in its time. It is larger than even the Arctodus Simus. Thus far ( to my understanding ) the largest crocodilian ever.
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Post by brobear on Feb 4, 2022 3:13:11 GMT -5
Crocodile vs Shark:
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Post by brobear on Apr 24, 2022 1:40:59 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on May 9, 2022 6:07:00 GMT -5
Over the years, my opinion on this match-up has not remained constant. I believe that in around 10 to 20 feet of water ( or less ) a saltwater crocodile has a good chance of killing a great white shark. Any deeper, and I'd wager on the shark. I also consider the tiger shark as being more of a fair face-off opponent for a crocodile. Also, for a bullshark, a mugger or a Nile crocodile face-off would be interesting.
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Post by brobear on Jul 19, 2022 2:43:33 GMT -5
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Post by brobear on Jul 30, 2022 8:11:31 GMT -5
11-foot gator frightens Brunswick County families www.wect.com/2022/07/27/11-foot-gator-frightens-brunswick-county-families/?fbclid=IwAR3AKk0eV5bFifqKxRPFNXyoBMyE2Ih6yJki_ipzN1HjibEeqNo8GpSbKaQ BOILING SPRING LAKES, N.C. (WECT) - Carol Woollery had a very unpleasant surprise when she went to run an errand with her daughter last week. As they pulled out of their gravel driveway in Boiling Spring Lakes, they noticed an extremely large alligator hanging out in their next door neighbor’s yard. “He was so huge. We thought it was fake. My daughter was scared to pass him. But I had somewhere to go. I had somewhere to be. And I was like, ‘Well, you’ve got to go past the alligator.’ And when she drove past the alligator a couple of feet at a blink of an eye the alligator spins around so fast and opened his mouth up. It was like a movie. Like Lake Placid,” Carol Woollery recalled. Woollery called her neighbor to warn her an 11-foot gator was hanging out behind her husband’s car. Then she called North Carolina Wildlife and the police. Woolery said Wildlife came out the next day and monitored the alligator who’d taken up residence in the pond on her property, but they did not remove him. “He said, ‘The alligator, they’re shy. And they will not bother [you]. Give them a couple of days, a few days, and he will move on. Because the pond is not big enough for food,’” Woollery said of learning Wildlife had no plans to remove the gator. She said she eventually convinced the officer to give her a permit so she could have a private removal service relocate the gator, but she was dismayed to learn moving a gator of that size would cost her $600. She ultimately decided she had no choice but to hire help.
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Post by OldGreenGrolar on Jul 30, 2022 19:06:03 GMT -5
Reply 276. The older the Croc, the larger the Croc.
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Post by brobear on Aug 2, 2022 5:49:01 GMT -5
"Henry" One of the world’s oldest and biggest crocodiles turns 120 siamtoo.com/11072/ Henry lives in his enclosure with six females, and has fathered over 10 000 offspring in the last 32 years. Crocworld Conservation Centre celebrated their oldest resident, Henry the Nile crocodile’s 118th birthday with a special birthday feeding, talk and cake for the guests on Sunday, December 16, 2018. Henry is the oldest known Nile Crocodile in captivity, weighing in at 500kgs and 5-metre’s in length.
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