10-05-2005, 10:22 AM
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| Really big crocodile...
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10-05-2005, 09:47 PM
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| 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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10-05-2005, 10:32 PM
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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. | |
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10-05-2005, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by pacer 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.
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10-06-2005, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by 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... | A "mouthful"? Doubtful.
At almost 18 feet in length, Gomek was in the upper spectrum of croc size.
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10-06-2005, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by ThatReallyHurt 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.
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10-06-2005, 11:09 AM
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| 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...
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10-06-2005, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by 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....) | A tough gator, no doubt.
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10-06-2005, 12:36 PM
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| Not really a croc.. more like a small dragon, or a wyvern.
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10-06-2005, 04:41 PM
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| 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.
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10-06-2005, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 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 | "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.
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10-06-2005, 10:21 PM
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| 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... | |
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