https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ene ... ood-thing/
I've been down in the Louisiana swamps and those things scare the piss out of me. Even relatively little ones at 7ft or so make me uncomfortable. I was walking on the path through Jean Lafitte national park in Barataria and I heard this little sound, kind of a nyunk nyunk nyunk. And I said, you know something about that sounds familiar. After a while I recalled that this was the sound that tiny little baby gators made to let their mother (caregiver) know they were unhappy about something. As a curious person I looked around and with careful scrutiny saw two great big momma gator eyes attached rather permanently to a great big momma gator. Further investigation seemed unwise at this point so I retired to a discreet distance."... He was a whopper.
It took six men to pull a 13-foot, 9-inch alligator from Lake Eufaula in Alabama. The animal weighed in at 920 pounds at a local lumber yard in mid-August, but its girth is only now raising eyebrows and drawing gasps; it was weighed last week but started to draw national attention Tuesday.
The giant male gator is one of several monsters that were hauled out of waters during regulated hunts in Alabama, Texas and Florida in recent years, and some biologists question whether that’s a good thing. Big dominant males manage the habitat where they reside, keeping smaller, more aggressive males away. ..."
Think of something with the brain of a chicken and a mouth that can bend steel. Momma mia!
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