It ’s a renowned debate – who would win in a engagement betweena shark and a crocodile . We now have another data point to add to this , with Brutus , a well known inhabitant of Australia ’s Northern Territory , shoot eat a shark .
Brutus the one armed croc is so famed he even has aSnopes yarn verifying his authenticity . Tour operator on the Adelaide River ( safely distant from thecity of the same name ) like toshow Brutus offto visitant and have train him to jump out of the water to take lumps of meat dangled off the gravy boat .
However , on a late visit they start something special , with the sight of Brutus set about to run through a bull shark . At 80 , Brutus ’s tooth are not what they once were ( crocodilian capacity to regrow teeth is not perfect ) , so he struggled to finish the shark off . Nevertheless , at 1.5 m to Brutus ’s 5.5 the shark was no match for its reptilian enemy .
“ We watched it for belike a sound five or 10 minutes . The crocodile slide back into the water with the shark , and then the crocodile started to take it back into the Rhizophora mangle to have it for himself , ” photographer Andrew Paice toldThe Sydney Morning Herald . Sadly we do n’t have telecasting , like the footage of asnake eating a crocodile , but Paice did get some great photos .
blithely for those who love a never ending parameter , a single incident does not decide the interrogative sentence . Brutus was just get his retaliation - his lose right arm is distrust to have been lost many years ago to a shark .
A couple of year ago a crocodile wasspotted eating a sharkin the same river . On the other hand , this video recording shows the head of what was once a 3.5 m crocodile , which appear to have been prick in half by a shark .
When Fairfax medium consulted Taronga Zoo a spokesperson said shark would generally be able to break loose crocodile in mysterious water , but could be snare close to shore
There are many different species of shark , and a small-scale numeral of crocodile . It ’s hardly honest to put a runty spokesperson of one up against the most dangerous the other can offer . We are still waiting for the outcome of a battle between a in full - sized seawater crocodile and a great white shark .
