NATURE | Supersize Crocs | Measuring a Giant Crocodile | PBS

Buy the DVD: http://www.shoppbs.org/entry.point?entry=2961616&source=PBSCS_YOUTUBE_NAA... http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/supersize-crocs/introduction/1746 Crocodiles are too dangerous and too shy to approach with a tape measure. Rom Whitaker and an assistant use precise photography and the help of a computer to make an accurate size comparison between a gharial and Rom's own body length. In "Supersize Crocs," Rom takes viewers on a quest to find the largest crocodiles on the planet.

NATURE's "Supersize Crocs" airs on PBS Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. (check local listings), part of the 27th season of the Peabody and Emmy award-winning series produced by Thirteen/WNET New York for PBS. Major support provided by Canon U.S.A. Inc. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/supersize-crocs/introduction/1746

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[yanivnevechen]

6 feet is 183cm not 180cm :)

Petty Pat

[450hp202turbo]

In July 1957, Krys, an attractive blonde Polish immigrant then aged 30, killed Australia's biggest known crocodile with a single shot on the banks of the Norman River near the Gulf of Carpentaria town of Normanton. The saltwater crocodile measured 8.63m, a size unheard of in Australia

[nastymonsters2]

bullshit not even close ...its not giant at all..

[UltraShaikan]

Its not the longest and biggest croc

[BroomeBlocker4]

@ollie082 It may not be the biggest, not by a long shot, but a 16 metre croc is still a respectable size, not a tiny croc even by saltwater standards

[TheMsmith77]

I heard from a guy that went to Cairo, and he stated that Gustave is dead and on display in a Cairo museum. Im like damn, that Gustave was hundreds of years old to get that size, plus eating humans, and our diets are retarded, so he probably would not have stopped growing. I would not want to see an alligator, croc, a gar nothing that size. Does anyone know for sure if Gustave is really dead? I know the subject was the croc, but am just wondering. Someone hit me up.

[Pie22z44]

A croc called krys is 28feet and 4 inches

[Pie22z44]

Krys was 28ft 4in

[dltanner99]

Cryptozoology novel see video book trailer

[yanivnevechen]

@lordswit6666

Dear Sir, one foot is actually 30.5 cm not 30 cm :)

I say good day!

[XXplaythegamesXX]

the german metric is : 30 cm is one foot,so 6 foot is 180cm.

[xismxist]

@ollie082 honestly i think gustave would be bigger than that saltie