Who would win a REAL fight between an average sized heathy male salwater crocdile and a healthy aveverged sized female great white shark?

On land, the crocodile.
In water, the shark.
Kind of hard to fight if you can’t breathe.

Well, if I’m not mistaken, crocodiles kill their prey by biting onto them and then rolling around in the water to tear them apart. While one might be able to get its jaws on a great white, I think the shark would just be too big for the crocodile to roll over.

Shark. It can attack from any angle and is the aggressor. The croc is a passive hunter, has poor mobility and has a very rigid body and jaw structure.

No contest.

The crocodile should do the opposite, try rolling the sucker on dry land.
At that point, he wouldn’t even need to roll ‘im over.

Oops. Edit – Saltwater crocodiles roll to either throw prey off balance or to tear them apart after they’re dead. Their hunting method is to ambush land dwelling mammals, throw them off balance and drag them into the water. The problem is, the croc probably wouldn’t be able to fir its jaws around the great white in the first place, wouldn’t be able to throw it off balance, and probably wouldn’t be able to drag it to land (even if it was smart enough), since although crocs are very strong, sharks are very, very good swimmers.

Crocodile
Crocodiles actually have a harder bite than sharks do, they are also covered in thick scales that can withstand the bite of a shark, where as the shark is covered in skin. The only real advantage the shark has is mobility, but im still voting for croc.

@asmonet saltwater crocs arent really that passive, if a shark comes its territory its going to attack it.

Well, if one won the fight, it certainly wouldn’t be decisive. The shark would have a hard time getting a hold on the croc, and the croc would find it nearly impossible to use its hunting techniques on the shark. I think they’d flop around a lot and maybe draw a little blood, but nothing much would happen.

Crocs can turn very quickly where as the shark would have to make big circles, im pretty sure the croc could grab the shark, and once it does it will do some serious damage. The only way i see a shark being able to kill a croc is if he attacks it unexpectedly .

First of all, is there really any ‘average’ sized Great White Shark? I learned from the movie “Jaws” that nothing is average in the ocean and would the shark ever be swimming close enough to the shore for the crocodile to gain any type of advantage over it?

Ummm yes, there are average size great whites(its around 13–16feet), and salt water crocodiles dont just hang out by the shoreline they’ve been known to travel far out into the sea, as great whites have also been known to come inland and get stuck in rivers on occasion. So while encounters between great whites and saltwater crocodiles are rare, they definitely do happen.

Well, see, Bluefreedom, the thing about Jaws is that it was a movie. It was based on the idea that there could be a really big shark that liked to munch on dudes, but that doesn’t mean it reflects reality. That’s the thing about fiction – it’s usually not real.

While I’m being snarky – what does the question mean by a “real” fight, anyways? Is it as opposed to one where they’re just pretending to fight? The WWF of the Animal Kingdom?

@hobbes im going to go with “real” fight meaning real in the fact that its not a CGI fight like the Animal Face Off was since caac4 got both of his/her animal fight questions from that show.

@Hobbes – Thanks for straightening me out about the movie Jaws. I could have sworn it was for real! Oh wait, that was until I saw the ‘making of’ and Steven Spielberg ruined it all and said it was mechanical. And I so wanted to believe! Bummer. :o)

By the way, what is reality? Just a state of mind or is it really real? :o)

Well, there are a few attempts by philosophers to prove that “reality” doesn’t exist, but even if it’s an illusion, making any sense of it requires that we assume works of fiction to reflect a different illusion than the one we’re dreaming.

I just want to point out that only on Fluther could we go from an argument about who would win a fight between a shark and a crocodile to a debate about the existence of reality. = )

I live on several different planes of existence so sometimes I can’t always tell between surreal, fantasy, real, make-believe, and science fiction. :o)

I think they have medication for that ;-)

They do but it doesn’t work on me. I’m special. :o)