Tropical Deciduous forest period 3-4

Being a large carnivorous reptile, the mugger crocodile eats fish, other reptiles and small mammals, such as monkeys. In fact, most vertebrates that approach to drink are potential prey, and may suffer being seized and dragged into the water to be drowned and devoured at leisure. Large adults will sometimes prey on large mammals such as deer, including the 225-kg sambar deer, and the 450-kg domestic water buffalo. Mature adults compete directly with the tiger over kills. Either species may give way on occasion, with the size and health of the animals involved the determining factor. Tigers also prey on muggers on occasion, being the only natural predators of adult muggers other than other crocodiles. There are reports of attacks on humans and there has been at least one confirmed fatality in Iran (on a child).[citation needed] This species is generally considered to be occasionally dangerous to humans, but nowhere near as notorious as the much larger (and, in India, less common) saltwater crocodile.

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