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The largest of their species
Topic Started: Feb 18 2014, 11:47 PM (11,290 Views)
The All-seeing Night
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Posted Image look at the back legs. Thing is gigantic
Edited by The All-seeing Night, Feb 22 2015, 11:27 AM.
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I find it rather absurd that Gustave would be significantly larger than the largest salties around today. Salties certainly get bigger than niles. Now that Lolong is no longer with us Cassius has been returned his crown as the biggest in captivity at 5.48m. There are other well known crocs in Northen Australia that are probably that size or bigger. Brutus is comparable and The Dominator, who shares the same river, is probably even larger.

Gustave's elusiveness and terrifying reputation make him legendary so of course size estimates have to be legendary as well. Somehow I feel if he was actually caught and measured it would be a let down for most people. Brutus and the Dominator, on the other hand, are regularly made tourist spectacles for the "Jumping Crocodiles" river cruises. They are seen on a regular basis making it much easier to get realistic size estimates.
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Feb 23 2015, 09:08 PM
I find it rather absurd that Gustave would be significantly larger than the largest salties around today. Salties certainly get bigger than niles. Now that Lolong is no longer with us Cassius has been returned his crown as the biggest in captivity at 5.48m. There are other well known crocs in Northen Australia that are probably that size or bigger. Brutus is comparable and The Dominator, who shares the same river, is probably even larger.

Gustave's elusiveness and terrifying reputation make him legendary so of course size estimates have to be legendary as well. Somehow I feel if he was actually caught and measured it would be a let down for most people. Brutus and the Dominator, on the other hand, are regularly made tourist spectacles for the "Jumping Crocodiles" river cruises. They are seen on a regular basis making it much easier to get realistic size estimates.
do you have pictures of those crocs? and waht abt gustave. its laughable IMO abt his exploits of killing an adult hippo. it must have been already on a verge of death before being killed by gustave.

theres a croc called JAWS-3 in India where i live. its one of the largest captive salties
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I don't have a picture of her, but Fluffy was the largest captive snake at the time of her death, or has she been surpassed?
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Here is Fluffy.

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Here is Medusa
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Feb 27 2015, 04:41 PM
Posted Image<br />Here is Fluffy.<br /><br />Posted Image<br />Here is Medusa
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Biggest live crocodile in captivity:
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Here are some cetaceans. For wild ones I have heard only maximum size reports. I haven't found specific individuals.

Gambit from uShaka Marine World, South Africa. Caught in 1976, he is claimed to be the largest captive bottlenose dolphin, measuring 3,65 m. long and weighing 490 kg.

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Tilikum, the largest captive orca ever. Actually I have heard about some male orca of at least equal size that was caught in Japan decades ago and died quickly.

Tilly was about 6,7 m. long and weighed about 5,35 tons. There have also been other large male orcas, like Bingo or Ulises (still alive, long live), but Tilly was quite bigger than them. Unfortunately, he died recently. Now Ulises is the largest (and oldest) male captive killer whale.

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JJ the gray whale. Allegedly the largest animal to have ever existed in captive environment. 19,200 pounds (8,700 kg) and 31 feet (9.4 m).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_whale#Captivity

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This practicular Weta is the largest in terms of measurements that I have ever heard of. Its 20cm long. The species is called the Poor Knights Island Giant Weta.
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