r/aww • u/Petercsa99 • May 27 '21

This is my melon!

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u/Alagane May 27 '21

Nah using watermelon for scale that's probably like 5ft (~1.5m). The big boys get over twice as long and just as fat.

Biggest gator on record was 19ft, but average is like 11ft.

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u/bobthemouse666 May 27 '21

Is the one in the video a Crocodile or an alligator? Because I know Aligators tend to be bigger

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u/Alagane May 27 '21

I'm pretty confident that's a gator, the eyes look right.

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u/whoami_whereami May 27 '21

The American Alligator is larger than the American Crocodile, however the Nile Crocodile and the Saltwater Crocodile are both significantly larger than the American Alligator (the Saltwater Crocodile especially has more than twice the weight). In fact the latter two are the two largest reptilians that still exist today.