Brutus, the 5.5m saltie!, page 2

Originally posted by BigfootNZ
Its funny but you have people saying fake and others saying its real...

I take it you didn't look at any of the given links such as this one about the crocodile jumping tour. Or this one where members of the public that have also been on the tour (or a similar tour) provided additional pictures...

yet no ones mentioned the horrendously visible black line down the outside of the snout which given the lighting shouldn't be there...

Don't see it. I see perfectly natural colours and lightning.

and the fact the chicken carcass is behind its head (no croc would miss that at that distance coming up straight out of the opaque water as they do in those situations).

Crocodiles aren't guns, i.e. they are not 100% accurate killing machines. We usually only see the successful kills on documentaries - because the 10 failed attempts before that doesn't make for good TV. In addition to that this croc only has 3 legs which would make him even less accurate.
In addition to that - the guy is controlling where the meat goes with the stick. He wants the croc to jump as many times as possible because he wants to give his passengers a show. If he allowed the croc to take the meat with the first jump, then the show would be over before it even started...

Not to mention the simple fact that doing that trick with a Croc that size, in a boat THAT close to the water level is unbelievably dangerous...

No arguing with that. It's a tragedy waiting to happen. This one looks like a pretty close call:

The photo is a complete and utter Photoshop of extremely poor quality.

No it's not. The photo is real. You are welcome to bring more to the table, but perhaps you should look at all the given links first.

Even if the Croc is a real celebrity and as large as he is. **sigh** waits for the next troll to come in and say 'nah ah the photos real dude!'.

Just because someone disagrees with you, doesn't make him/her a troll. I'm saying "The photos are real dude." Are you going to call me a troll now?

Salties get big, real big but 5.5 meters is fairly typical from what I understand for that species so nothing that special...

Agreed.

And this is one of my pictures taken on a similar trip (at a croc farm) as I mentioned earlier:

It's not as good a photo as the picture in question and the croc isn't nearly as big as "Brutus", BUT you'll notice similar "issues" as those mentioned throughout the thread.

Originally posted by INSANCT
the Crocodile is real (as in Brutus), however I would say this photo has been shopped - simple fact that the croc should/would have water running off it. The picture shows that there is no water dripping from the croc.

Same with my picture. I can however assure you that my picture is also real.