Is the alligator OR crocodile more dangerous?

Question

if you where to be stuck in front of a crocodile OR alligator wich one is THE most dangerous to attack?.

Answer 1

crocodiles are bigger and alligators are more predatoral,but the most dangerous are in the nile delta they cause many deaths and I think its the crocodile.

Answer 2

The bigger one.

Answer 3

The one that is hungrier.

Answer 4

Crocodiles are more dangerous than alligators.

There are salt water and fresh water crocodiles in Australia.

The salties are much more dangerous than the freshies.

You would never risk swimming with a salty.

PS: The Nile River crocs are extinct as far as I know but if you want to see a mummified Nile River crocodile (complete with mummified babies in her mouth) there is some in the Cairo Museum (animal mummy section).  They were huge.

Answer 5

stick your head in and find out.

Answer 6

Well a crocodile is much bigger than an alligator and more powerful however both would do you no good but due to its sheer strength and size and viciousness the Nile croc is the worlds most dangerous crocodile

Answer 7

Both share an attitude toward food, and they have similar "dispositions" (to use an inappropriately human term), but crocs are much more widely distributed, therefore encountering and killing more people.  Which would you rather have eat you?  Either choice is equally unpleasant.

Answer 8

crocodile

Answer 9

both are very dangerous but if i had to choose one id say a crocodile considering they are accustomed to going after much bigger prey

Answer 10

Nile crocs are "extinct" in a good portion of the nile river now, yes, but they are still quite numerous throughout the rest of Africa.

Your question can be answered in so many ways.

In general, because crocs typically attain larger sizes and are found in tropical areas all around the world as opposed to two species of true alligator located in the southeastern U.S. and a small stretch of the Yangtze River in China (nearly extinct in the wild), crocs are more dangerous.

In Florida, 25 people have been killed by alligators over the course of about 50 years. Every year Nile crocs are responsible for an average of 300 human fatalities in Africa. I'm not sure on the stats for Saltwater crocs (the other "maneater" of the croc world). But again, you look at size and diet, gators don't get anywhere near as big, nor do they have things like wildebeest and zebras and gazelles and stuff to eat. Nile croc eats these things on a regular basis, sees a person at the water's edge washing clothes or getting water for cooking, whatever, and he thinks, "Wow, look at that thing, it's not very big, but it doesn't have any hooves or horns or anything... I bet it's pretty slow on land ~and~ in the water... I'm gonna eat it."

Now, if we want to bring this question to a little smaller geographic level, however. Florida is the only place in the world that has natural populations of alligators and crocodiles (the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus), and alligators are the more dangerous of the two. Since records have been kept, there has been one fatality from an american croc. This was a pair of surveyors in the southern part of the state in the early 1900's. One of these fine men had a camera, the other had a rifle, they're out surveying and come across this croc. The guy with the camera tells the guy with the rifle that if he shoots it, he'll take his picture with it. Well, shooting a crocodilian and killing it are two different things. He shot and sat on it's back... it came back around and got it's vengeance. Her hide is in the Florida Museum of Natural History I believe... So here in Florida, alligators are more dangerous, but dogs are more dangerous than that. (25 human fatalities from gators in FL in 50 years... dogs kill more people every year in our state.)