Taurus
Invertebrate
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Post by Taurus on Jan 10, 2012 22:10:26 GMT -5
sigh....here we goes, there is huge difference between gharials from other large crocodilians. A bite from gharial won't able to kill a jaguar. sigh....here we goes, I'm not expecting the Gharial to kill the jaguar I'm expecting it to drive it off. I see very few ways a jaguar could overpower such a big animal, ignore the jaws for a moment, and take a look at the rest of its body. It's a huge powerful animal twice the jaguar's size, if you can recall when Steve Irwin was catching the "super croc" a simple tail flick was enough to crack Steve's ribs, and that's when the crocodile had four other people restraining it, having its jaws roped shut, and being towed onto land. Now try to imagine a Jaguar trying to apply a skull bite on an animal like this, the Gharial is just going to start spinning. If this is on land, or in shallow water the jaguar is literally going to be crushed if it tries to restrain the Gharial. This would easily discourage the cat from such a dangerous prey item. Sigh....I don't see any evidence of crocodilians will spinning on the land or in shallow water without being roped on and have an animal that's biting on the gharial's skull. It will just thrashing around, trying to escape from the jaguar's attacks so badly.
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Post by Anomonyous on Jan 10, 2012 22:32:34 GMT -5
Crocodiles will actually roll around on land. Of course, they were not false gharials, but as false gharials ARE true crocodiles I doubt they lack the body design to do so.
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Post by rhino on Feb 28, 2013 21:19:11 GMT -5
I'm going to back the jaguar unless I am missing something about the false gharial. It's jaws don't seem impressive.
Big Cat vs Crocodile topics are so pointless.
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Post by Cr1TiKaL on Jul 21, 2013 3:17:56 GMT -5
On land, Jaguar wins, however it won't be easy. On water, it's an obvious win for the croc.
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