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Buzz1ight t1_iw4txmh wrote

According to Google that's inaccurate. The orca apparently has ove 19,000 psi of bite force, over because it broke the measuring device?

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garydancer t1_iw4vmaw wrote

so it's really: "the nile crocodile has the strongest bite of all animals, except for orcas because we didn't include them on the chart" ?

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AliasNefertiti t1_iw4xmhe wrote

I have the strongest bite force of all animals (if we leave everyone else off the chart.)

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garydancer t1_iw4xuxl wrote

back to your pod, orca. reddit is for land mammals

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AliasNefertiti t1_iw4y33e wrote

Oh! Sorry to misrepresent as orca. Imma human sap er sapien

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garydancer t1_iw4ye8r wrote

there's something fishy going on here... but i can't put my flipper on it. oh well. carry on, human sap

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bigskywildcat t1_iw7dlxu wrote

If you take out all outlier data and set it to the animal kingdom average, orcas arent even all that powerful putting the nile croc in 1st

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garydancer t1_iw7i80s wrote

but their bite force is still pound-for-pound greater than a nile chocodile, no? are orcas and dolphinosaurs even real? i bet the ocean is a myth altogether

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realstonedjedi t1_iw5152l wrote

This just reminded me of the video where one crocodile mistakes other crocodiles hand for a chicken or something. Bites it, rolls, ripping the thing off with a second. The other just looks in shock and disgust. Hilarious.

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OKPrep_5811 t1_iw82h4v wrote

So... did the others scattered off in every directions, join the feast or just stood by motionless?!

EDIT: typo

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BrutalModerate t1_iw6gn6j wrote

Saltwater crocodiles have a stronger bite than Nile crocodiles.

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MarcusForrest t1_iw7n3wv wrote

Saltwater Crocodiles are often cited as having the strongest, but that isn't accurate anymore - their bite force is measured at 3700 PSI, but Nile Crocodiles, although smaller than Saltwater Crocodiles, have a bite force of 5000 PSI

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BrutalModerate t1_iw80c6d wrote

It would be nice to see a source of who did the 5000psi measurement of the Nile croc bite.

Paleobiologist Gregory M. Erickson and colleagues put all 23 living crocodilian species through an unprecedented bite test. The "winners"—saltwater crocodiles—slammed their jaws shut with 3,700 pounds per square inch (psi), or 16,460 newtons, of bite force.

"We tested several 17-foot [5-meter] saltwater crocs," he said. "If you scale the results up to 20-footers, you get estimates of 7,700 pounds [34,250 newtons], which is the low end of T. rex bite-force estimates.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/120315-crocodiles-bite-force-erickson-science-plos-one-strongest#:~:text=Erickson%20and%20colleagues%20put%20all,200%20psi%20(890%20newtons).

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OKPrep_5811 t1_iw81uyg wrote

Just wondering 🤔 ..hmm, could they possibly break a slab of granite 6" in thickness huh?

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pbmm1 t1_iw61t9b wrote

Eh I bet I could beat it

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uzi0906 t1_iw6ppjo wrote

Chompforce

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eachu168 t1_iwl6tw5 wrote

Wouldn't know that at all. One thing for sure, three days ago, I got bitten by a crab and it sure hurt. It almost flattened my finger.

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Blutarg t1_iw52858 wrote

So if it bites you and doesn't let go, you'll still be there after a while.

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