Posted above (by ranjithvnambiar) were these words;
"While a great white tries to rip off whatever comes in its jaw ,a saltwater croc will crush whatever is caught between its jaws.."
Yes, this seems correct, but if a typical shark is made mostly of muscle and fat, with a soft bone structure called cartilage, then what is there to crush?
It seems that if blood loss or death via asphixiation does not happen, and the Crock releases the Shark (to take another bite or breath?), then the Shark is temporally at least, free to return to the attack mostly unharmed!
But, if the shark takes a big bite from the soft underbellie of the Crock and removes a large piece, then the Crock will soon die!
Crushing and submerging prey (to drown them) is one thing! But a Crock has to breathe also?
Perhaps, for our fun time, we should also interject the Hippo into the brawls? Shark, Croc and Hippo in a free for all?
So let's have a 22 foot White Shark and a 22 foot salty Croc, and a 15 foot long Hippo, all kept hungry and placed in a pool of water that varies from 40 feet deep to shallow water, and let the fun began?
It would definately be a hit on You-tube!
I'll throw the cabbages, crippled seals and bloodied mullet in first!
Regards,
Edited by opuslola - 28-Oct-2010 at 16:33