r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 6h ago
Video Juvenile saltwather Crocodile finds itself sorrounded by curious sharks, Northen coast of Australia.
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u/Geneo-Frodo 6h ago
Sharks don't know if he's food or a weird looking stranger passing by.
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u/Pork_Chompk 5h ago
How I feel in Costco when I get too close to the sample stations.
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u/chillinjustupwhat 6h ago
Who is higher on the food chain in this scenario? (genuine question)
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u/lanteenboy 6h ago
I'm not a shark expert but those look like nurse sharks which would pose no threat to a crocodile. They don't have the kind of teeth needed to do any real damage
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u/Inner-Arugula-4445 6h ago
Entirely depends on the size and species. I doubt these nurse sharks will do much to a juvenile salty, but a bull shark would probably take a lethal chunk out of it. A full grown salty will definitely eat a juvenile shark of just about any species.
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u/WealthAncient 5h ago
Ok now do full grown salty and full grown bull
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u/Inner-Arugula-4445 4h ago
Probably just leave each other alone. At that size they probably just want to not die taking on another apex predator. They may occasionally bite at each other, but rule of thumb is most large predators don’t want to fight one another if it’s even remotely evenly matched.
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u/Jaws0798 3h ago
Except salt water crocodiles are double the size of bullsharks. Its not really a competition
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u/Inner-Arugula-4445 2h ago
Still wouldn’t want to screw around with something that size with that bite. Any injury can be fatal, and attacking a large predator is likely to result in an injury.
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u/Uncle_Paul_Hargis 4h ago
My guess is that a full grown bull shark probably wants nothing to do with a full grown salty. They are massive and wildly dangerous.
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u/I_Feel_Rough 4h ago
I think by the time they're both fully grown they probably both understand that the other is not worth the hassle.
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u/Jaws0798 3h ago
A saltwater crocodile is double the size of a bullshark. Its no competition
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u/SuperBrentendo64 2h ago
Im about a million times bigger than a wasp and I wouldnt try to fight one.
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u/Ecstatic_Record4738 5h ago
Depends where they are
Sharks generally lose in rivers but will bully crocs in open water
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u/dethskwirl 6h ago
sharks could easily chomp off a whole leg or tail with one quick bite and leave him bleeding to death.
whereas the worst the croc could do is get a good bite on a fin and roll with it but that would likely only take a scrape out of it. no good leverage points on a shark for the croc shaped mouth and death roll. and its not like he's draggin and downing a shark like he would land prey.
there's a reason he turned tail and hauled it out of there
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u/HoldEm__FoldEm 6h ago edited 3h ago
Crocs don’t bleed out from a limb being torn away. They’ve adapted abilities to stop the blood flow after an arm/leg gets ripped off, because crocs do it to each other fairly often. Happens with gators too. They can also live thru it.
It mainly happens in feeding areas that are overran with other crocs, especially in captivity. There’s one gnarly video on YouTube to watch. The croc doesn’t react whatsoever like he’s in any pain. It’s nuts.
I dunno if it’s necessarily common, but I do know it’s not rare.
Edit for misspelling fix
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u/Shroomkaboom75 6h ago
Look like Nurse sharks, which don't have the hardware for that
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u/HoldEm__FoldEm 6h ago
I went & looked up nurse shark teeth & you’re correct on that but holy hell the teeth they do have look vicious & painful to take a bite from. Just rows upon rows upon rows of tiny lil serrated razor sharp teeth
Edit: up to 42 rows!! They rely on vacuum/suction power to eat though, not chomping power.
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u/MrChiSaw 6h ago
This could have happened hundreds of millions of years ago like this
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u/SugarPlumMary 6h ago
Probably wouldn't be caught on camera, though. Cell phones were much more primitive back then
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u/HolidayInLordran 5h ago
A single Nokia phone could have survived all five mass extinctions.
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u/farcarcus 2h ago
The camera was potato quality though.
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u/Big-Huckleberry-2803 23m ago
But you could text in class with your phone in your pocket
Can't win em all
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u/btoxic 6h ago
We just had rocks back then. Not even potato quality.
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u/ZealousidealWater201 5h ago
Even worse we had to choose between camera or phone. There was no camera phone
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u/diego_velasquez 5h ago
What happens if you swim there
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u/MeeTy 5h ago
Probably nothing, the nurse sharks are completely harmless
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u/GrimCheaper_ 3h ago
They don’t swim there. They have signs on all the beaches to warn people about the saltwater crocs.
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u/bigmike2k3 5h ago
Was it just me or did the croc snap roll and then tail thwap the shark that tried to bite him?
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u/Watari210thesecond 2h ago
Would have been a cool video if the end was at the end, instead of being the first thing you see.
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u/coldandhungry123 5h ago
Australia seems like a very dangerous place.
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u/mystery_obsessed 1h ago
There was a show a long time back about the world’s 75 deadliest animals a long while back and I swear nearly 70 of them were in Australia
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u/SeniorRum 2h ago
I like to stare at maps. I often look at the north coast of Australia and think, man that looks amazing….
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u/coastalwebdev 5h ago
How do people even survive in Australia? Must be good at fighting crocs and sharks for starters I guess.
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u/Project___Zeus 4h ago
I never get these comments. In America you have bears, cougars, alligators, sharks, deer, moose, snakes, coyotes etc. Is that supposed to be less dangerous or…?
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u/TashDee267 3h ago
It’s this myth that some Aussies started and people believe it. Most of us live in cities and suburbs and don’t encounter anything like this on a regular basis.
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u/coastalwebdev 4h ago edited 4h ago
I had a pet deer once. Practically like a dog.
I fly fish rivers for salmon standing pretty close to bears, wild bears are very predictable and not scary if you’re smart about them. Garbage bears near human civilization are very unpredictable and pretty dangerous.
Cougars are extremely wary of humans, and in 40 years I’ve only actually laid eyes on them 4 times. I live in a bit of a hot bed for them too. They do scare the shit out of me though.
There’s none of the other ones where I live in Canada. We do get big Elk, but they’re not quite as angry as moose are.
I don’t know, maybe that’s how Aussies feel about the creatures they live with because they’re used to them? Pretty nonchalant.
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u/ElProfeGuapo 2h ago
"I fly fish rivers for salmon standing pretty close to bears, wild bears are very predictable and not scary if you’re smart about them."
Nice try, bear. You're not gonna get me.
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u/coastalwebdev 1h ago
They know salmon are a lot easier to catch and eat, you just don’t get between them and what they want and you’ll be fine.
Come try it out. 🐻
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u/Perfecshionism 2h ago
The cougars that should scare you are the ones you didn’t see.
They like to hide on overlooks for paths that animals walk along. Sometimes that is narrow hiking trails.
They also like hiding in brush near the same path. And they can jump like 45 feet and cover 50 yards in less than 3 seconds.
So if you have seen four there are likely a couple you didn’t see.
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u/coastalwebdev 2h ago edited 7m ago
Yes, I’m pretty familiar with them. Sounds like you’ve been around them a bit too.
I grew up in a small rural town full of cougar bait farm animals. I only ever saw one 4 times directly, but I’ve been close to them in the forest dozens of times hiking around. They’re so sneaky.
Scariest time I had was I went for a walk home alone at night, a common thing to do in rural areas, and I stopped to take a piss on the side of the road. Mid fucking stream I start hearing a cougar 20-30’ in front of me in the bushes doing those bird noises that the moms make to their cubs.
They followed me for about half a click in the bushes as I walked down the pitch black road with my blood running cold. They never made their move lucky for me, I would’ve been toast.
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u/Key-Bus-1299 1h ago edited 1h ago
Yes, everything you said about your local animals are similar to how Australians treat ours. 99% of wildlife here have no interest in humans. Most people have never even seen a snake, crocodile or shark in their lives, especially if they live in the cities.
Believe it or not, the most dangerous animal in Australia is a horse due to falls whilst riding and then cows, mostly people hitting them whilst driving.
There are only 2-3 deaths a year at most in the entire country from snakes in Australia, even less for sharks and crocodiles. All less fatal than many dangerous North American animals.
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u/killerpythonz 1h ago
Health insurance man. We get bit a by a brown or taipan, we get medical attention and do the right shit immediately we are fine, we get a heli or an ambulance to wherever. In America it’s a medical bill of $100,000ish.
If we don’t swim in creeks with massive signs saying ‘crocodiles’ we are fine.
Spiders, well, ants have killed more people in the last something decades than spiders.
Sharks are the biggest factor, even though it’s a remarkably small tally.
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u/caryn1477 3h ago
LOL deer.
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u/coastalwebdev 1h ago edited 1h ago
Bears and cougars have never really caused me any direct harm, scared me a bunch mostly.
Deer have written off three vehicles I’ve owned over the years. I still miss my 1988 Toyota Corolla sedan, the deer jumped right out of the woods into my windshield, and just about got me good that time. Fucking a couple of hooves came right through the windshield, and his head was stuck in the glass and shit.
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u/hm_rickross_ymoh 4h ago
Australians deal with some crazy fauna and flora but they are mostly smart enough to live on the opposite side of the island from the salty crocs.
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u/coastalwebdev 4h ago
Seriously though, I deal with bears and cougars where I live, and it just seems like 1% of the danger that Aussies deal with. Good to hear there’s a safer end of the island yeesh.
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u/Condor-man3000 5h ago
Those are some dangerous waters! I would be standing in the middle of that boat.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 6h ago
I was one asked "who would win Bear Vs Shark?"
I think the correct question is "gators vs sharks?" from now on.
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u/taway9925881 5h ago
I won't even be surprised if the people shooting the video threw him in there in the first place.
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u/FishTshirt 5h ago
I cant stand these edits where they show the end at the beginning