Really big crocodile...

[Ripostal Clerk]

The late Gomek, a saltwater crocodile:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribb...mg/f_gomek.jpg

[Inquartata]

There was a program on PBS a few weeks back, documenting the effort to find and trap a monstrous croc in Africa somewhere. It was truly enormous. Gomek would have made a mouthful for it...

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MSNBC posted an article today about the ghastly outcome of a 6 foot gator's encounter with 13 foot burmese python someone had let loose in the Everglades.

[ThatReallyHurt]

MSNBC posted an article today about the ghastly outcome of a 6 foot gator's encounter with 13 foot burmese python someone had let loose in the Everglades.

Those were some interesting articles... seems the python wins sometimes, and the gator wins sometimes... but yeah - "ghastly" is a pretty good word.

[Ripostal Clerk]

There was a program on PBS a few weeks back, documenting the effort to find and trap a monstrous croc in Africa somewhere. It was truly enormous. Gomek would have made a mouthful for it...

A "mouthful"? Doubtful.

At almost 18 feet in length, Gomek was in the upper spectrum of croc size.

[Ripostal Clerk]

Those were some interesting articles... seems the python wins sometimes, and the gator wins sometimes... but yeah - "ghastly" is a pretty good word.

Anacondas take caimans with some regularity, but, like the gator in question, they tend to be on the small side.

You won't find any constrictors taking a full-grown male Nile or Saltwater croc.

[Larrison]

But yah know... my hat's off to the gator.

Even when going down, he still managed to take his/her opponent down as well...

(pun not intended....)

[Ripostal Clerk]

But yah know... my hat's off to the gator.

Even when going down, he still managed to take his/her opponent down as well...

(pun not intended....)

A tough gator, no doubt.

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Not really a croc.. more like a small dragon, or a wyvern.

[Moses]

The croc of which Inq speaks is/was "Gustave", who may have exceeded 20 feet. He may not have been able to take a mouthful out of this Gomek, but he would have likely dominated the 18-footer.

-Das Mosen

[Ripostal Clerk]

The croc of which Inq speaks is/was "Gustave", who may have exceeded 20 feet. He may not have been able to take a mouthful out of this Gomek, but he would have likely dominated the 18-footer.

-Das Mosen

"May have exeeded 20 feet" does not = 20 feet.

There's a lot of exaggeration in the croc world. For a long time, it was claimed that there was a Saltwater croc that was 33 feet long, but when its skull was actually measured, it was clear that it came from a croc a little over half that length--about 16 feet.

The largest croc currently in captivity is a Saltie-Siamese croc hybrid named Yai--IIRC, he's 19' 8" long, and weighs about 2,465lbs.

[Inquartata]

Thanks, Moses, that's the one. Variously estimated at 6 or 7 meters in length and weighing over a ton. The program I watched was an expedition to capture it. Though it failed, there was a bit of film of the thing, in the water near the shore. It looked the size of a Cigarrette boat even without the tail...