Saltwater crocodile versus shark, who will win? Saltwater crocodile versus great white shark. Locations and causes of collisions

For a crocodile in this case, the temperature of the pool can be a deadly problem. For most species it should be between 20-38 °C. He will ignore the white shark as a likely victim, since he chooses the animal that he can deal with one way or another. And he lives in fresh water(although there are species that can tolerate salty food).

The white shark, on the other hand, lives in salty ocean and coastal waters. And the temperature of its range is much lower - 12-24 °C. In general, the tolerable temperature spectrum is wider, from cold seas to the tropics, but we are still talking about the usual.

Bloody encounters between sharks and crocodiles are not that uncommon. Proof of this is the image of the battle between a crocodile and a shark on the coat of arms of the city of Surabaya. The main antagonists are the saltwater crocodile, which can swim far into the sea, and a shark of comparable size, due to its aggressiveness.

But a crocodile has more powerful jaws, grip strength, and teeth have roots. With equal sizes, moreover, the crocodile will have more weight due to the presence of a skeleton.

With anaconda it is more difficult. A lot depends on chance here. The crocodile will be lucky to grab it with its jaws - perhaps, with its favorite twisting, it will have time to tear out a piece of flesh sufficient to at least weaken and prevent the snake’s body from wrapping around it. And if the anaconda manages to “ensnare” the reptile, then that’s it, it breaks the bones and pushes it inside, there are enough such videos.

I'm afraid that in the end, one of the remaining three will jump onto the edge of the pool and get dessert in the form of the pool worker who drove the three of them into this death trap. And then they’ll film another one... the twentieth hollywood movie horror.

Everyone will calmly wait to see if food that is more familiar to everyone will appear. A crocodile is something that is smaller in size, an anaconda is something that can swallow (again, something that smaller in size). The white shark will wait for blood markers (blood) to appear in the water. Most likely, both the anaconda and the crocodile will not challenge the white shark’s right to prey if it is interested in it. I think every predator will wait until they faint with hunger for their food, and not fight like spiders in a jar.

"A crocodile is something that is smaller in size."

In fact, crocodiles calmly attack animals that are not just larger, but significantly larger than themselves.

He (Kermit) also shot a 12-foot (3.6 m) crocodile. The ugly, menacing beast retained in its stomach sticks, stones, cheetah claws, impala hooves, large eland bones and fragments of the shell of one of the largest river turtles; Apparently, he accepted the fee from among his fellow inhabitants of the river, or from among the creatures that came to quench his thirst. He didn't care whether the animals were grazing in the pasture or getting fresh flesh, he simply hunted them. (Roosevelt, writing from Guaso Nyiro, pp. 286-287.)

The popular belief that crocodiles do not hunt waterbucks was clearly refuted by our observations in the Kruger National Park, and, as can be seen in Table 6, waterbucks are one of the most common types of warm-blooded prey in the diet of crocodiles. An important part of the crocodiles' diet is impala, as well as kudu and bushbuck. We happened to observe how an adult male giraffe, intending to cross the Olifants River, suddenly tripped, fell and was dragged into the water by a large crocodile. An adult male buffalo was grabbed at a watering hole in Nyavutsi by a fourteen-foot crocodile and drowned after a horrific struggle. Over the years, there have only been two recorded cases of crocodiles predating baby hippos, however, there have been several recorded cases of hyenas, hyena dogs and even lions being killed by crocodiles.
Table 6. List of observations of animals killed by crocodiles in the Kruger National Park during the periods 1936-1946 and 1954-1966.
1936-1946: 80 impala, 1 zebra, 21 waterbuck, 7 kudu, 2 buffalo, 1 warthog, 2 marshbuck, 2 duiker, 1 nyala, 1 stenbok, 3 bushbuck, 2 bush pigs, 1 baboon, 1 hyena dog. Total: 125.
1954-1966: 163 impalas, 7 zebras, 4 wildebeest, 41 waterbuck, 22 kudu, 2 buffalo, 2 giraffes, 3 warthogs, 3 marshbuck, 3 nyalas, 1 stenbok, 21 bushbuck, 1 leapbuck, 2 hippopotamuses ( cubs), 2 hyenas, 1 lion, 1 baboon, 1 vervet monkey, 1 porcupine. Total: 280.

“One day I saw a crocodile attack and actually overcome the resistance of a bull buffalo. I watched the reptile lying on the sandy shore with a huge open mouth, his feathered friends are probably the only ones he has. However, the crocodile refused to brush his teeth , when a herd of buffaloes came down to drink. Instantly and silently the crocodile slid into the water, and I wondered with surprise whether he would attack such a large herd. Six cows were drinking at the very edge, and the bull went deeper and buried his head in the water, before I saw another sign of the reptile's presence. Then a whirlpool of water rushed by with lightning speed, and the bull threw up his head with the crocodile grasping his muzzle. His position on the low bank slope no doubt helped the "croc" and inch by inch he dragged the bull closer to water. Suddenly, with great effort, the buffalo broke free, but before he could get any distance, the "croc" grabbed his paw. His head sank down, and the horns lifted the "half" of the crocodile out of the water and laid it on the sand. But the efforts cost the buffalo its position. He knelt down, and at the moment the crocodile grabbed his nose again. Then I shot at the reptile, the crocodile loosened its grip and soon disappeared under water. I hoped I could get it. But later I was never able to get the carcass. Before the bull could rise, I shot him too to examine his wounds. Looking at the nose, I discovered that the crocodile's huge mouth had crushed the bones into mush, the flesh, like the paw, was torn and hanging away. It seemed incredible that such deadly strength and ferocity of a crocodile could have evolved from a creature that, perhaps a hundred and fifty years ago, had emerged from an egg; and which began its life as a lizard about six inches long!”

Giraffe killed by crocodiles:

A wild African buffalo struggled to take its last breath before it was dragged underwater by a Nile crocodile in Kazinga Channe, Uganda, Africa. Predator-prey relationships. African buffalo(Syncerus caffer) is one of the representatives of the African "Big Five". They are often seen in large herds and cooperative defense of relatives (strength in numbers).

This is the first evidence that came to mind. And so, there are plenty of such cases. And this is precisely with successful attacks, but there are also unsuccessful ones. Crocodiles are highly specialized hunters of big catch.

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First of all, it depends on which crocodile you take. A saltwater or Nile crocodile will bite both a white shark and an anaconda. Especially the last one. After all, in fact, no 10-meter snakes exist and never existed, with the exception of a number of species that are extinct today. The largest green anacondas reach somewhere between 5.5-6 meters in length and weigh up to approximately 100 kg, while the largest modern saltwater crocodiles can weigh up to approximately 1750 kg with a length of up to 7 meters, and white sharks can weigh more than 2.3 tons with a length of not less than 6.1 meters.
And the so-called “videos of anacondas defeating crocodiles” that were mentioned here actually demonstrate snakes eating “harmless” crocodiles or yakar caimans. And they are usually smaller in size than anacondas themselves. But the point here is not even a matter of “more or less,” but the fact that a caiman is far from a crocodile of the same size. In fact, young crocodiles easily eat caimans of similar size when kept together in captivity. Whether an anaconda will be able to cope with a crocodile of the same size, or whether it will be bitten in half by it, is another question. Be that as it may, even if a 100 kg anaconda can compete “on equal terms” with an approximately 3-meter 100 kg crocodile, then it simply has no chance against a larger one. Against a shark, I think it will have a better chance, since the shark’s body is devoid of bones and can easily be flattened by the compression of the anaconda’s rings. But not against a 2-ton shark.)

As for the white shark, although it is larger than a saltwater crocodile, sharks themselves are downright bad fighters. They live by opportunistically eating carrion, fish, cephalopods, and only sometimes young or weakened by old age/illness marine mammals. One should not fall for the common and obviously erroneous discussion that “white sharks specialize in feeding on seals.” This is a myth from documentaries that have nothing else to show except the seasonal feeding of sharks on pups sea ​​lions. Sharks have an extremely primitive physiology: in particular, the kidneys are practically disabled and waste products accumulate in the blood until they themselves flow through the rectal glands and gills. And this is strong (and by no means in better side) affects endurance, strength of muscle contractions, coordination of movements and nervous system in general, which are already not very well developed in sharks. The cartilaginous skeleton, even with proper calcification, cannot attach such powerful muscles to itself as even thin bones bony fish, not to mention the powerful skeletons of such advanced higher vertebrates as crocodiles. The same goes for the jaws: the cartilaginous jaws of sharks are also very unstable to stress and are easily deformed. The jaws of young white sharks do not allow them to handle even seal pups without risk, without literally risking their heads. U large sharks in the process of ontogenesis, this deficiency is partly compensated by an increase in the calcium content in the cartilage of the jaws. But, I emphasize - only partly. Being ordinary modified scales, shark teeth do not have roots and easily fall out of the gums even from slight stress. And them a large number of may not always compensate for this. I say right away that sharks don't bite through shells sea ​​turtles - this is also a myth, based on the study of the contents of the stomachs of sharks and the finds of the carcasses of unfortunate turtles with marks from shark teeth. But once a turtle’s shell, softened by water, becomes very fragile, especially if it is some kind of leatherback or Australian turtle green turtle. And pieces of sea turtle shells in the stomachs of sharks, in addition to eating carrion crushed in the water, can also end up as a result of swallowing turtles whole: thus, by the way, turtles are eaten by snakes and monitor lizards that do not have sufficient bite force to open the shells. No one has ever seen such a situation where a shark would swim up and gnaw the shell of a fresh turtle, and I guarantee you that. But there are more than enough videos where large tiger sharks bite off turtles’ tails, heads and flippers, but cannot do anything about the shell. And although protective function in osteoderms of large crocodiles, it is frankly secondary; it will be very difficult for a shark to bite through the thick skin of a crocodile. Even the belly of a crocodile, the vulnerability of which is invented and imposed by the pseudo-documentary program “animal battles,” is in fact strengthened not only by quite decent skin (in strength comparable to buffalo and used for elite leather products), but also by a large layer of muscles with abdominal ribs. Finally, sharks are downright cowardly: the white shark is the only large predator, which people regularly fight off with their bare hands. Moreover, there are cases where people survived attacks by even 5.5-6 meter sharks. Again, since white sharks are not experts at eating fatty seals, don’t think that they don’t like people. A shark will eat any meat available to it; it is an opportunistic predator: they have found in the stomachs of white sharks bivalves, herring, small squid, sea turtles, rats, remains of unidentified terrestrial animals, in one case they even found a 1.2-1.5 meter Australian narrow-snouted crocodile. These animals are by no means less “appetizing” than people, but white sharks eat them with pleasure. After all, the same polar bear is a much greater specialist in fatty foods. But this does not prevent him from considering people as food... And even if you do not focus on the low fatality of shark attacks on people, then the same seals, as a rule, also survive shark bites. It is easier to find photographs of seals injured by sharks healing their injuries on the beach than to find cases of successful predation by white sharks on adult pinnipeds. White sharks are not hunters of large prey, and they do not suppress the resistance of even relatively small prey.
Therefore, I do not think that a saltwater crocodile will have any problems killing a primitive and frankly timid white shark. After all, many successful attacks by crocodiles on a variety of sharks have been recorded. Saltwater crocodiles are extremely aggressive - males, defending food or territory, often rush even at helicopters (seemingly very “scary” because of the noise and size of unfamiliar objects) of rangers. But what is most important is that, unlike sharks, crocodiles regularly fight with each other and are able to suppress the resistance of even a large and well-armed victim (after all, successful attacks by crocodiles are known even on big cats). They calmly cope with large animals and some individuals in the tea swamps of Australia even specialize in preying on adult Asian water buffalo. The white shark and the saltwater crocodile are, let’s say, animals from two completely different “leagues,” despite the shark’s superior weight.

So I propose to complicate the question: what happens if you put a plesiosuchus, a plesiotilosaur, a liopleurodon, a large saltwater crocodile and a seasoned male walrus in the same pool?

Of course, in this case he will not be a priority fighter. But of the marine mammals of this size, only the walrus can do something:

"One can hardly speak of any serious food competition between walrus ami and polar bears, even if we take into account the fact that walrus and from time to time they also feed on carrion - for example, the corpses of whales. During the hungry months of the polar winter, whale carcasses are the main food for all inhabitants of the Arctic, from seagulls and ravens to arctic foxes, wolves and bears. Robert Brown notes that stomachs walrus those killed near skinned whale carcasses are invariably stuffed with whale meat. Walrus and sometimes they even kill small ringed seals - as we already know, the main prey polar bear. It is quite possible that they do not hesitate to sea ​​hares. Pedersen says seals are afraid walrus they avoid their hiding places. Freuchen says that the herds walrus It usually drives seals out of the bays where they spend the summer months.
We have no reason not to believe the stories about how Eskimos catch fish north of Baffin Island. walrus to her on the edge of the ice floes; they put a piece of seal blubber into the water in the hope that walrus, attracted by the bait, will grab it and try to drag it under water; but because walrus cannot eat a piece under water, he must pull it out onto the ice, and that’s when it becomes the hunter’s prey. They say that upon noticing black spots - seals lying on the ice, walrus and break through the ice from below to get to them. According to Pedersen, the walrus deliberately chiseled the ice floe, trying to split it under the man’s feet. The Hudson Strait Eskimos say that in the fall, when they are tracking walruses at the holes, the walruses, noticing the place where the hunter is standing, dive and then begin to break the ice under him.
Frederick Jackson, who lived for about four years in the southeast of Franz Josef Land at the end of the last century, and one of Haig-Thomas’s companions were attacked by a walrus right on the ice floe: the walrus leaned out of the water and tried to strike with its tusks. K. Kolleway, a member of the German expedition that landed on the northwestern coast of Greenland in 1869, wrote: “We were making our way with difficulty along the path among the treacherous ice fields and suddenly we saw a walrus: it broke through the ice from below very close to us and frightened us with its unexpected appearance. We ran as fast as we could, but the walrus did not leave us - with great speed he swam after us under the water, breaking the ice under our feet. We set off in all directions, jumping over a thin crust of ice, which the alpenstock kept breaking through. Loud rustling. and the flapping of the monster’s flippers accompanied us all the way, until finally we got out onto the old ice, where our pursuer left us alone.”
If suddenly a group of people from the ship scare away a seal and a walrus lying on an ice floe not far from the hole, then the walrus, which moves faster than the seal on land, will be the first to reach the saving hole. But instead of peacefully walking around the seal, the walrus deliberately hits him on the back with his tusks; this unexpected manifestation of aggressiveness is certainly a consequence of fear. Walruses usually hunt seals in the water. Pedersen twice saw a walrus chase and then kill a young ringed seal. And the Eskimos from the shores of Cumberland Bay told Gantzsch that they had more than once observed walruses catching seals in the water, grabbing them with flippers and then stabbing them with their tusks. The Eskimos of Pond Inlet say the same thing.
In the pools of the New York Aquarium, they constantly measure the speed at which walruses of different types swim. age groups. The maximum throwing speed does not exceed 7-9 kilometers per hour, and the normal cruising speed is only a little over three kilometers. In the wild, walruses make 10-13 kilometers per hour, and the slowest of the seals makes at least 15-20 kilometers. Therefore, it is not surprising that walruses hunt only young seals. However, admitting that walruses swim much faster in the sea than in the pool (and we know that they catch up even with fast-moving beluga whales), we still cannot help but admit that seals in the water are much more mobile than walruses. Therefore, when hunting seals, the walrus, like a bear, swims on its back and dives under the seal at the moment when the seal pokes its head out of the water to breathe. Having grabbed it with flippers, the walrus strikes with its tusks, cutting open the seal’s chest. Then, holding his prey with his flippers in the same way as a female walrus holds a puppy, the male walrus swims with her to the nearest ice floe, throws the carcass onto the ice and climbs out himself. There he rips open the seal with his tusks and greedily swallows large pieces of skin and fat. It is quite possible that he uses his vibrissae for this operation. Observations show that in captivity, a walrus, tearing pieces of meat from a seal carcass, helps itself with whiskers. Walruses especially love to feast on soft seal fat: the small distance between the tusks sitting on both sides of its mouth does not allow it to swallow large pieces of meat. Therefore it is not surprising that most of The seal carcass turns out to be untouched. However, one day Pedersen discovered a whole flipper in the stomach of a walrus.
In those months when there are especially many polar cod, walruses sometimes catch these fish, crashing into schools and eating them in large quantities.
Walrus predators are still an anomalous and quite rare phenomenon. Fey believes that in the Bering and Chukchi Seas there is barely one male predator per thousand walruses. But they still exist and are much more common than is commonly thought. Young narwhals, as well as whale skin and fat, have been found in the stomachs of walruses more than once. There is even the only evidence of how two walruses attacked a whale from both sides, which defended itself with its tail. Apparently, whales avoid going into waters where there are walruses. Famous polar explorer early XIX century, William Scoresby Jr. observed many times in the Norwegian and Greenland Seas how walruses devoured narwhals. The Simpson Sound Eskimos told William Schwatka that walruses often attacked porpoises. The Englishman Robert Gray, the skipper of a whaling ship that entered the waters of the Norwegian Sea in 1890, wrote: “Standing on the bridge, I noticed some object in the dark water, over which birds were circling. Having lowered the boat into the water, we saw that it was a narwhal ", completely covered with wounds; his belly was almost eaten away. The culprit of the crime was a huge walrus, calmly sleeping nearby on a piece of ice."
Twelve years before this message, Gray's father, whose ship was in the Greenland Sea 275 miles off the coast of Spitsbergen, writes in the ship's log: “Moving north through ice fields and drifting ice, this morning I saw some object ahead that at first thought it was the shaft of a hand harpoon. The water around it was oily, and several birds were sitting nearby. At first I thought it was a dead whale, but then I saw that it was the tusk of a narwhal. As we got closer, I noticed something in the water near it brown and wondered for some time what it could be, but I soon realized that it was a walrus, tightly clinging to a narwhal.
When we got very close, I sent two boats and ordered a hand harpoon to be thrown at the narwhal and a harpoon cannon to be fired at the walrus. The blow of the first harpooner landed right at the walrus's nose. The walrus became furious and released the narwhal, which immediately began to drown. The walrus clearly did not want to part with the prey, and, diving, he pulled the narwhal to the surface. Wrapping his flippers around it, he sank his teeth into it again.
At this time, the second boat approached, the harpooner fired a cannon right at the walrus’s neck, and he finally released the narwhal. The walrus dragged the boat quite far in the wind until a shot from a gun in the back of the head finished him off.
Upon examining the carcass, we found that the narwhal's entrails were missing, and most of the belly had been eaten or torn apart by the walrus, who selectively selected the pieces, apparently having spent a lot of time on the meal. He ate the fat from the skin as cleanly as if it had been scraped off with a knife. The narwhal was killed recently; in a mortal fight, the walrus wounded him with tusks from nose to tail. The walrus itself was intact. There was a layer of fat three inches thick on it, and its stomach was filled with seal skin and pieces of narwhal meat that it had just eaten. According to our rough estimates, there were at least fifteen gallons of blubber in his stomach.
The narwhal was about fourteen feet long, not including the tusk, and nine feet in girth. The length of the tusk was five feet.
The walrus was eleven feet long and had a girth of nine feet ten inches.
How, one wonders, did the walrus manage to hold such a powerful beast as the narwhal? A narwhal in its native element feels much freer than a walrus, and can leave with a harpoon embedded in it, unwinding a hundred-length whale line.
This is the only explanation I can think of: the walrus caught the narwhal while sleeping, dived under it and, plunging its tusks into its belly, grabbed it with its flippers. This is the position we found them in, with the only difference being that the walrus was now on top."

Such a question may seem strange, but both species of animals actually overlapped with each other on the Malaysian islands and the northern Australian coast. It is worth talking about who is stronger using the example of a great white shark and a saltwater crocodile, which have met each other several times in nature.

What can a shark do?

Sharks do not defend their territory, offspring, or even their food source.

In order to understand who is stronger, let’s look at the features and capabilities of the white shark. The record size of the white shark is 6 m in length, and the recorded weight is about 2 thousand kg. Average weight shark is about 1 thousand kg with a length of about 4.5 m. The bite force of a shark can reach 1800 kg/cm2.

Shark encounters end every year fatal for approximately 15 people.

Since sharks primarily feed small fish And marine life, they are not accustomed to large-sized victims who also resist, so the shark attacks relatively slowly and is unable to hold a resisting victim for a long time.

What is a crocodile capable of?

Saltwater crocodiles exhibit high level intolerance and aggression when there is an attempt on their territory

The maximum recorded size of a saltwater crocodile is 6 m and weighs about 1.5 thousand kg. Therefore, these parameters are approximately the same in animals. At the same time, the bite force of the crocodile, which was recorded, was more than 2000 kg/cm 2. So, according to this indicator, the crocodile turned out to be much stronger.

About 2,500 people are killed by crocodiles every year.

Who is stronger

Excellence in combat experience, tactics and weapons, make the saltwater crocodile too difficult an opponent for the white shark

It is almost impossible to fight off the predatory attack of a crocodile. It is superior to a shark in the following indicators:

• The attack is faster. Crocodiles are accustomed to large, resisting and fast-running prey, and their jaws have sufficient power and endurance to hold the victim for a long time.
• The response is much faster. Crocodiles have a viewing angle of 270°, a powerful curving spine and sensitive receptors, all of which are poorly developed in sharks.
• Greater maneuverability. Crocodile muscles are most adapted to water conditions, and shark muscles are very primitive.
• More teeth. They are up to 10 cm long, thicker and more powerful than the five-centimeter shark fangs.

The chance of surviving a shark attack on a person is estimated at 86%, while that of a crocodile is only 32%.

When a saltwater crocodile and a white shark meet, the second one will clearly not be in trouble, since the crocodile is much stronger than it.

The great white shark is the largest predatory fish, reaching a length of 6 meters, and weighs up to 2 tons. Is the strongest poisonous fish. This predator owes its name to white color abdominal part of the body, with a broken border on the sides separated from the dark back. In addition to its very large size, the great white shark has also acquired a notorious reputation as a merciless cannibal due to numerous attacks on swimmers, divers and surfers. The great white shark is the only surviving species of its genus Carcharodon. The body of the great white shark is spindle-shaped, streamlined, like most sharks - active predators. A large, conical head with medium-sized eyes located on it and a pair of nostrils, to which small grooves lead, increasing the flow of water to the shark’s olfactory receptors. The mouth is very wide, armed with sharp, triangular-shaped teeth with serrations on the sides. With such teeth, like an ax, the shark easily cuts off pieces of flesh from its prey.The diet mainly consists of marine mammals. In addition, it hunts a variety of fish and seabirds.

Locations and causes of collisions

Saltwater crocodile and the white shark are residents of Australia. There have been cases like saltwater crocodiles swam hundreds of kilometers from the coast, and at such a distance there are great white sharks. The reasons for their clashes may turn out to be hunger. However, in nature there will be no fight, since the shark will be afraid to attack the crocodile, and a crocodile does not fight in the open sea. Small sharks primarily view the saltwater crocodile as a potential threat. This is the most famous fight, and here we can only guess by studying the weak and strengths both opponents.

Known conflicts:

1. There was a case where a huge saltwater crocodile killed a bull shark. The Briton managed to film everything. Peter Jones, 62, was on a river cruise in national park Cockatoos in the Northern Territory of Australia. The steamboat came across a bull shark, which was being chewed by a saltwater crocodile. Seeing that he was being watched, the crocodile went under the water along with his prey.

2. There was a case where a huge 5-meter saltwater crocodile tore a 3-meter bullish shark, not sixgill (wrong translation).

3. There was a case where the head of a 3.5 meter crocodile lay on the shore. Nobody knows who it is, but there is evidence that it was a white shark that did it. This evidence about a shark is very unlikely, because any shark actually does not have enough strength to bite through all the bones that were in the crocodile, and the shark simply cannot accommodate this entire part of the Nile crocodile. However, first of all, it was Nile crocodile, and Nile crocodiles live only in Africa, They have never, in the entire history, been found in salty waters, from where the head of the Nile crocodile swam ashore. So the most likely evidence in this battle was poachers, not a shark. But despite the fact that this evidence is very unlikely, we decided to show this case. The site that describes this will be an incredible exaggeration of the white shark, because the head of the Nile crocodile, which lived in Africa, could not get into salt waters, and it was a Nile crocodile, not a saltwater one, as stated on the site.

4. There was a case where a saltwater crocodile easily coped with bull shark in almost equal sizes. Below is an excerpt from the documentary "Invasion of the Crocodiles", where this fight was filmed. In the same documentary film the quality is much better.

5. There was a case where a saltwater crocodile easily killed a white shark of almost equal size. In this case, the crocodile used killer whale tactics. “The 20-foot crocodile grabbed the shark by the throat and began a “deadly rollover.” Once upside down, the shark could no longer do anything.
A saltwater crocodile tore off the throat and head of a great white shark with its jaws." It also described a case where a crocodile also killed a tiger shark. A link to this double case is given below in the source.

Main mistakes when comparing

The fact is that a saltwater crocodile holds its breath for 2 hours (with active movement for 30 minutes), and this is much longer than the entire fight lasts. Therefore, a crocodile cannot come to the surface specifically for oxygen. But if the crocodile swims for oxygen, then no matter what it is, the shark will not be able to attack it due to the sensitivity of the crocodile. The crocodile will simply dodge. Therefore, don't believe" Animal battles", they have this kind of impossible fantasy that a black bear can turn over a Mississippi alligator.

Let's study the weaknesses of our opponents:

Shark: belly, fins, gills, cowardice, tail, fragile teeth, nose.

Crocodile: belly, endurance, poor teeth adhesion.

Advantages:

Shark: endurance, feeding frenzy, sharp teeth, speed, tactics, camouflage.

Crocodile: aggression, jaw power and bite, agility, armor, reaction, vitality, muscle grouping.

Animal comparison

1. Size - approximately equal

Crocodiles grow up to 6.7 meters, and white sharks approach this size and grow up to 6.1 meters. The choice is obvious, a crocodile is longer than a shark.

2. Weight - per shark

White sharks (record) weigh up to 2 tons, which is more than saltwater crocodiles weigh (record) - 1635 kg. So, weight is a shark's advantage.

3. Durability - for a crocodile

Crocodiles have "armor" that protects them from many things. After all, his armor consists of bone plates. Whether a white shark bites through a crocodile's armor or not, armor is still a very useful defense for a crocodile. Also, the shark has a little armor. It saves her in a small way; if you stroke a shark against the fur, you will feel like you are stroking sandpaper. Of course, armor helps a crocodile better.

4. Speed ​​- for the shark

Sharks are very fast, judging by their armor and movements. The crocodile is less adapted to swimming, because it does not spend its entire life in water. Even to breathe, a shark needs to be constantly in motion, so there’s no need to think about speed.

5. Fins - for a crocodile

The fact is that a shark has fins, but a crocodile does not, but if you think logically, then the fins in a fight with a crocodile will only interfere with the shark, and become another vulnerable spot.

6. Jaw - for a crocodile

7. Sensitivity - approximately equal

Crocodiles have hundreds of tiny receptors on their bodies that detect splashes of water at a distance of about 100 meters, and the approach of prey, including fish, at a certain distance. Crocodiles also have between their horny scutes nerve cells, which sense the approach of its prey at a distance of a kilometer or more. The shark has a lateral line, which is more sensitive than all the sensitive organs of the crocodile. However, this will not benefit her. If a shark senses a crocodile before it does, then when it swims up to it, the crocodile itself will feel it, even if it does not notice it with its vision.

8. Tail - for a crocodile

Saltwater crocodiles break a canoe in half with a blow of their tail, and sharks swim only thanks to their tail, especially since a shark’s tail can become a vulnerable point, because with a bite a crocodile can easily break a shark’s tail.

9. Muscle mass - for a shark

The fact is that sharks move throughout their lives, even in their sleep. And crocodiles often pretend to be motionless. It is not surprising that 600 kg. a crocodile is 4 meters in size, has 400 kg of muscle mass out of 600 kg. But since the shark is always on the move, it gains more muscle mass.

10. Skeleton - for a crocodile

A shark has a cartilaginous skeleton, while a crocodile has a bone skeleton. This gives him a significant advantage in many ways, including bite force. The fact that cartilage gives an advantage to flexibility will not play any role in the fight.

11. Gills - for a crocodile

12. Vitality - for a crocodile

Crocodiles are pierced through with spears, but crocodiles survive this and heal their wounds. Even if the crocodile is completely skinned, the crocodile can live for 2 - 3 hours. When they tear off each other's limbs, then their pace does not slow down: his perfect circulatory system blocks the access of blood to the damaged area, eliminating the possibility of severe blood loss. Sharks at that time were also very tenacious - they suffered very severe wounds on their gills from their relatives, and survived with their fins slightly torn off. But this vitality is small for a crocodile.

13. Disguise - as a shark

Shark coloring blends with the water in the open sea, unlike crocodile coloring. At that time, it will be easy for the shark to notice the crocodile, thanks to its dark coloring, and the very lateral line of the shark. But the crocodile itself can also feel it with receptors, however, in the worst case, not see the shark. In addition, the shark camouflages itself in the depths and attacks from the depths, which can help the shark during a fight.

14. Reaction - for the crocodile

Crocodiles have super-fast myosin: the slightest touch to sensitive organs causes a lightning-fast response. Super-fast myosin was also found in the shark, but it is very slow for a crocodile.

15. Teeth clinging - for a shark

A shark has sharper teeth, a crocodile has dumber teeth. That’s why a crocodile doesn’t grip its teeth well on its victim, and when a shark bites a victim, its teeth literally dig into the victim. Due to the fact that the crocodile has a longer jaw, it slips off the victim more often.

16. Nose - like a crocodile

The fact is that a shark's nose is very sensitive and is a vulnerable spot. The shark will not be able to do anything to the crocodile's nose at that time.

So who will win the most? formidable predators Australia, great white shark or saltwater crocodile? The choice is obvious: in the maximum sizes, and in the same sizes, the crocodile will certainly win. Whether in shallow water or in the open sea, a shark always has one unlikely chance - to bite a crocodile on the side. A crocodile has many chances, for example, it can gnaw off a shark’s fins, or break its tail, it can also easily rip open its belly, or it can even tear off its jaw, or in any case, just bite its skull. Well, a crocodile can simply injure a shark’s gills, and the shark will not live long after that. Well, besides,the crocodile's muscle grouping is more perfect than the shark's; if in a fish all the muscle work is aimed at jerking its head and moving forward, then in a crocodile - muscle mass distributed, giving him a large sample of movements. That’s why a lightning-fast 180-degree turn is why a shark performs it more slowly, taking several movements, while a crocodile does it in one go.

Conclusion: a crocodile has a great advantage over a shark in any element.

Let's try to imagine what the battle will be like in reality.

American alligators and sharks are known for their extreme feeding habits. They are opportunistic predators who will not hesitate to launch their greedy jaws into any potential prey they spot. Including each other, says zoologist James Nifong from the University of Kansas (USA).

A Mississippi alligator chews on a nurse shark on Sanibel Island, Florida (USA). Photo: USFWS.

For the past ten years, Nifon has been studying Mississippi alligators in their freshwater sanctuary in the southeastern United States and has repeatedly seen different sharks swim there. He wondered whether crocodiles interact with their sea guests, whether the green ones manage to teach uninvited fish a lesson with punishing teeth. After digging through the scientific literature and consulting with experts, he learned of a number of confirmed cases of alligators devouring lemon sharks, smallhead hammerheads, baleen nurse sharks and stingrays. Elasmobranch cartilaginous fish may be a significant but undervalued food resource for alligators, Nifun believes.

Meanwhile, such evidence is rare, and there are several reasons for this. First, alligators with sharks are not easy to track and observe in coastal habitats. Secondly, alligators devour relatively small sharks, which from afar may not be identified, being mistaken for some bony fish. Thirdly, the acidity in the stomachs of alligators is so high that any food, with the exception of hair or shells, dissolves there very quickly, especially cartilage, so it is not possible to identify the remains of sharks and rays in crocodile nausea or directly in the stomachs during autopsy.

Cases of encounters between crocodiles and elasmobranchs are also known from other parts of the world. IN South Africa For example, the remains of sharks of two unidentified species were found in the stomach of a Nile crocodile. In Australia, saltwater crocodiles have been observed preying on blunt-nosed sharks, and a recent study documented crocodile bite marks on half of the sawfish rays examined in the west of the continent. Crocodiles love the meat of cartilaginous fish - the aborigines even use it in traps as bait for saltwater crocodiles.

Nifun was also able to find several interesting newspaper clippings from the 19th century, which tell about battles between sharks and Mississippi alligators. So, in October 1877, hundreds of alligators, attracted by the abundance of fish formed after the tide in a cove near Jupiter, Florida, were attacked by hundreds huge sharks, also smelling potential food. According to an eyewitness, alligators with sharks “rose on the waves and gnawed like dogs,” after which the surf turned bloody, and then for several days the coastline for 80 miles was littered with the corpses of headless and tailless alligators and sharks bitten in two - a real feast for vultures and buzzards! Perhaps the journalists The Fishing Gazette, in some places exaggerated and embellished, but alligators and sharks do sometimes gather in large schools in places where prey is concentrated, so large-scale interspecies clashes cannot be ruled out. And in those days, their packs were much more numerous than today, which increased the likelihood of such battles, adds Nifung.

Another story from Florida appeared in The Palatka Daily News in May 1884: a certain three-meter shark tracked a two-meter alligator and attacked it, biting into its side and biting it in half, after which “half of the defeated enemy disappeared into the deep throat of the predator.” Yes, sharks are also no strangers and can give crocodiles a hard time! Moreover, this enmity has lasted for millions of years, at least since the late Cretaceous period: Fossil crocodile bones with bite marks from ancient sharks were found in northeastern Mali. However, these days, predatory aggression by sharks against sinister reptilians is relatively rare, and such evidence often looks implausible, but the opposite cannot be said, Nifnuf notes. So far, the crocodiles seem to be winning.

Text: Victor Kovylin. Based on materials:

Who is stronger: a shark or a crocodile?

Here victory depends, as it were, on the shark itself. And victory depends on the crocodile himself.

If you turn the shark over, it will fall asleep. This scientific fact. The truth is little known to anyone except killer whales.

Everything that IGOR PROKHOROV 5.3K described is true, I have nothing to add to his words.

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The shark has a very weakness, which few people know about: being turned over on her back, she very quickly falls into a stupor, as if falling asleep. Killer whales often take advantage of this. Swimming along the bottom and seeing the silhouette of a shark above, they grab it from below and immediately flip it onto its back. And after a few minutes the shark falls asleep, after which the killer whale devours it. A person can handle it in the same way (I saw a video of a man grabbing a medium-sized shark in a swimming pool, turning it over on its back and it quickly fell asleep).

If a crocodile grabs onto a shark and can turn it belly up, it can celebrate victory. A few years ago I found on the Internet interesting story one local resident from the banks of the Amazon. He witnessed a battle between two sharks and two (or three?) crocodiles. Sharks swam into the Amazon from the sea, probably looking for new places of prey and food. And local crocodiles came out to meet them. After a short fight, the sharks retreated.

Who are you more afraid of? Personally, I am a shark.

Doesn't have a more powerful body. The crocodile has a definite advantage in armor on its back. But even skilled people catch crocodiles with their bare hands. How about trying to catch a large, predatory shark with your hands?

I don’t know how I think they can’t be compared at all, each is strong in his own way and each has his own habits, strength, abilities, etc. this is the same as comparing an elephant and a giraffe, one has weight and one has length! As for me, both animals are strong!

Every family has very strong individuals. There are such individuals in both the crocodile family and the shark family. And besides, both predators are very strong. Therefore, in my opinion, it is more correct to divide the victory fifty to fifty.

Both are very strong, but it seems to me that if a crocodile grabs it, it will break all the bones, because when it grabs it, it suddenly lights up its prey in the water, and goes to the bottom, although sharks are much larger, which may not have the strength to do this, and The crocodile has very strong scales, which are very difficult to pierce or bite through if you just get to the stomach, although sharks themselves are very strong and agile, but it seems to me that the crocodile is stronger, I’m not an ace, I just think so)))

Here, after all, the answer lies in who bites whom first. If the crocodile grabs onto it and begins to spin around its axis, the shark simply will not survive this damage. And if the shark, in turn, bites off the crocodile’s head, then the headless crocodile will also have trouble in the future.

If you think like that, then it seems to me that the shark will be stronger, and it large sizes than a crocodile, and it has a larger mouth :) And perhaps a crocodile, since a shark is good only in water, and a crocodile is good both in water and on land.