What animal eats crocodiles?
So it’s all a matter of perspective. Lions and leopards can sometimes kill smaller crocodiles under 7 feet, but they wouldn’t have much chance against a 14 footer weighing nearly half a ton. Crocodiles are fast and their strength is in their explosiveness, but if their bite doesn’t connect with the attacker then it loses the initiative. With limited stamina compared with mammals, crocodiles tire easily and a persistent mammal can often get the upper hand. I’ve seen some interesting film of a pair of giant river otters attacking a black caiman in South America. The otters danced around the caiman, pawing at its tail. The caiman lashed out and lunged at its attackers, but within a few minutes it became so exhausted that the otters had a much easier time. Before long, they were feasting on its tail and the caiman could only sit and watch.
