How can a crocodile be stopped in Australia So giant? Expert response

KOMPAS.com – If you follow the news, you should know that the officers of the Northern Territory (NT) in Australia have captured a saltwater crocodile that has been hunted for 10 years.

This crocodile is called "Giant" because of its length of 4.7 meters and its weight of 600 kilograms.

"Note that this is the largest saltwater crocodile ever caught in Katherine's management zone," said John Burke. ]

Tuesday (10/07/2018).

However, is it true that the crocodile deserves to be called a giant?

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Stephani Drumheller-Horton, a paleontologist from the US. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an expert in reptiles, says the Guinness Record mentions that the largest crocodile ever caught is a saltwater crocodile from the Philippines named Lolong. The crocodile measures 6.17 meters.

In addition to Lolong, there is also the longest record of saltwater crocodile skin held by specimens from Papua New Guinea. Its length reaches 6.2 meters

However, the majority of saltwater crocodiles do not even reach the size of a crocodile that has just been captured in Australia.

Selina Groh, doctoral candidate at the UCL-Birkbeck Department of Earth Sciences and Planets expert Crocodylia, reveals that the saltwater crocodile in Australia is the largest in the world, followed by a Nile crocodile in Africa and an American alligator.

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However, to reach the size of 4.7 meters, crocodiles need to special conditions, including warm weather, sufficient space to move, and large prey.

In addition, bad and age also contributed to the development of crocodile size. Males are usually larger than females. Then, unlike humans, crocodiles continue to grow after badual maturity, although this growth slows down in very old people.

"So, the bigger and easier crocodile is the older crocodile," says Drumheller-Horton.

By size, officers in Australia suspect that the captured crocodile is 60 years old