A CANNIBAL crocodile has been caught red handed in a Top End river
Two fisherman came across the 5m saltwater crocodile taking a bite of a fellow saltie in Kakadu National Park, about 130km east of Darwin.
Industrial painter Shane Fraser said he was fishing with a friend in Wildman River when they came to a point where there was a lot of debris in the water.
The 35-year-old said they approached the debris and realised there was a crocodile "floating" in the water.
He said as they were peering down at the dead crocodile, a bigger croc appeared from beneath the water.
"It said 'you're not having that,"' he said.
"And it took a bite."
Mr Fraser said the crocodile would have been more than 5m long because his boat was about the same size. "(The dead croc) would have been about 3m," he said.
Mr Fraser and fellow fisherman Craig Beadman took this photo of the croc feasting on a fellow croc on March 13.
"It's a croc eat croc world out there," he said.
Saltwater crocodiles have been reported making a snack of a relative - the freshwater crocodile - but are rarely spotted taking a bite from a brother.
A 5-metre monster was pictured munching on a bull shark in a Kakadu river in June 2010.
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