Enormous crocodile eats bull shark in Australia
A boatload of tourists spotted a 5.5metre-long crocodile eating a bull shark for lunch while on a tour on the Adelaide River in the Kakadu National Park in Australia.
The tour guide spotted Brutus, a monster crocodile who has become something of a tourist attraction and is estimated to be 80 years old, tackling the shark.
Andrew Paice, from Forestville in Sydney, told the Sydney Morning Herald: "It was pretty astonishing, because I suppose we didn't really think about sharks.
"We were obviously trying to spot crocodiles. We didn't think sharks would be in that water too.
"The shark was still alive. It was still wriggling around quite a lot and thrashing around. It was amazing to see, and to see it so clearly as well."
A Taronga Zoo spokesman said a shark would usually be able to evade a crocodile in deeper water, but at shallower depths it was "entirely feasible" for a crocodile to overpower a shark.
The spokesman told Stuff.co.nz: "This fellow [Paice] has been incredibly lucky, because in general you don't see a lot of animals successfully hunting. It is quite a unique thing that he has witnessed.
"Crocs are quite opportunistic, they will eat anything they can overpower. When you're dealing with a five-metre crocodile, they're tremendously capable. Here you've got a meeting of two Top End predators, and in this instance the croc has managed to grab the shark and is using its remarkable strength to overpower it."
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