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| Why don't carnivores ever prey on each other? | |
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| DinosaurFan95 | Feb 27 2015, 04:27 PM Post #61 |
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Excuse me for not putting the tiger on a pedistal. |
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| FireEel | Feb 27 2015, 07:48 PM Post #62 |
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It could. Dude, a tiger has a 1/5 chance of killing a saltie on land. But it's still a possibility. |
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| Grimace | Feb 27 2015, 08:22 PM Post #63 |
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Where exactly did you get that figure from? |
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| FireEel | Feb 27 2015, 09:36 PM Post #64 |
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Outta my ass. |
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| DinosaurFan95 | Feb 28 2015, 03:41 AM Post #65 |
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Proof? Facts?
You just lost whatever credability you had. |
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| snap | Feb 28 2015, 09:10 AM Post #66 |
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First of all I am a croc fanboy so if anything I'd be bias toward the croc. However it simply goes that the croc is vulnerable on land because it is out of it's element. Put both of them in the water and now the tiger is out of it's element and doesn't stand a chance. I think that a tiger probably could ambush a large saltie on land but it would need to land a fatal bite quickly. Salties don't have many scutes on the back of their neck so the tiger proably could bite around them and land a killing bite. However, it would realize that a 15ft+ saltie is not a <9ft mugger and it would have a lot less room for error. Therefore it would probably judge the risk to not be worth it. |
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| bitisgabonica | Feb 28 2015, 05:00 PM Post #67 |
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Tigers can kill salties on land but it is very rare. i think both respect each other and i like to study both of them in their naturl environment. this interaction is no yet understod. whats the average sie and weight of muggers? tigers are more underrated than overrated!. its the lions that are the most overrated! Edited by bitisgabonica, Feb 28 2015, 05:02 PM.
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| ChazoG | Mar 1 2015, 10:06 AM Post #68 |
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Did you not see the account that was posted earlier? |
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| DinosaurFan95 | Mar 1 2015, 10:11 AM Post #69 |
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Did you not see the account that was posted earlier? [/quote] I did, but his statement that he pulled the numbers out of his butt ruined whatever credibility I might have given him. |
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| Ceratodromeus | Mar 1 2015, 12:57 PM Post #70 |
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Aspiring herpetologist
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Think he was trying to make a joke over anything else. Edited by Ceratodromeus, Mar 1 2015, 12:58 PM.
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| DinosaurFan95 | Mar 1 2015, 01:12 PM Post #71 |
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a dirty joke. keep it clean people.
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| Ceratodromeus | Mar 1 2015, 01:54 PM Post #72 |
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@bitisgabonica,
The average 2-3 meters, with a weight of ~40-~100kg based off of what I could find. |
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| bitisgabonica | Mar 1 2015, 02:01 PM Post #73 |
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its just a guess and i dont see any possibility of statistics to predict a win-lose situation in this matchup. its possible for a determined tiger to kill a huge saltie on land. scans if you have? i never thought that they would be that small Edited by bitisgabonica, Mar 1 2015, 02:08 PM.
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