Alligators Found in Rio Grande

UPI ^ | June 23

[nickcarraway]

Texas wildlife officials say there are six alligators living in the Rio Grande, east of Fort Hancock in Hudspeth County.

"There were approximately six alligators that were observed, three of them that were in the 2- to 4-foot range, and about three of them in the 5- to 6-foot range," Texas Game Warden Ray Spears told KFOX-TV, El Paso, Texas.

Spears said the alligators are in a rural area, so they don't pose much danger to humans. He said it is believed they were dropped off in the area by someone who was previously keeping them.

The warden said his office will be monitoring the alligators to keep people safe and to see if the animals reproduce in the river.

[null and void]

A wall would have been simpler...

[spectre]

LOL...

[goldstategop]

Someone got tired of their alligators. Baby gators are cute snaggle toothed pets but the grown up version is a bear to keep!

[hoosiermama]

New boarder control.....Keep ‘em hungry, turn ‘em loose.

[WellyP]

May the live in peace, be VERY WELL FED and multiply!

[Red_Devil 232]

We need to put a few thousand Crocks in there also!

[Dallas59]

6 feet of alligator would feed how many?

[handy old one]

New large alligator farm break out in south Texas along whole border!!

[WellyP]

Tastes like chicken...really does.

[WellyP]

That is a GREAT idea! Top end shoe prices could go down.

[FreeSouthernAmerican]

I think its cool. If they don’t come near me.

[omega4179]

HAHA!!

[King Moonracer]

Catch (in FL or wherever) and release (there).

[RebelTXRose]

Fried - and it doesn’t grow in your mouth like rattlesnake. LOL

[Vaquero]

Wow that is far west for them.....they are all over the east coast area but do they live in lower rio grande at all??? I suppose the climate of west texas is too cold for em normally.

[King Moonracer]

A wall would have been simpler...

But now we need web-cams.

[Sundog]

Neiman Marcus Tracadero Boot $450

[Plutarch]

Those aren't alligators. They are Nile Crocodiles, placed there by the Discovery channel, who wanted to get more dramatic footage like what they do in Africa, only closer to home.

[mnehring]

lol, how many FReepers have joked about doing this?

[allmost]

Tiny things (2-4 is still small-still scared of people usually), definitely introduced. Hope they make it.

[doc1019]

6 feet of alligator would feed ON how many?

Just sayn’

[Dallas59]

I stand corrected...

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Gators in the Rio Grande is an excellent idea!

[KrisKrinkle]

“Tastes like chicken...really does.”

So is that what they make those chicken strip things out of?

(I already figured out that chicken nuggets are really snake. The shape gives it away.)

[Sybeck1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rangemapx.gif

[null and void]

PPV?

[353FMG]

If alligators are found in Texas’ lakes and bayous, then why not in the Rio Grande?

[VRWC For Truth]

I call it a good start to a moat between Mexico and the US.

[ScottinVA]

Stock the Rio Grande with thousands more gators and tens of thousands of piranhas. Problem solved.

[ScottinVA]

The pic at #19 — Imagine substituting an MS-13 thug for the zebra. A beautiful sight it would be indeed.

[Eagle Eye]

Don’t know where you get your chicken but....

[Ditter]

Agree. I have only eaten alligator once and once was enough. Nasty.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Alligator Fajitas!

[Dallas59]

I’ve never eaten alligator....I may have to now.

[Eagle Eye]

A bit gamier and stringier imo.

Not bad...definitely better than kangaroo.

[Ditter]

The alligator I had tasted fishy.

[Texas56]

Alligators are also found in other rivers in Texas.

Plus outside of Houston in Armand Bayou Nature Reserve there are many really big alligators. You can actually canoe in the nature reserve, you just have to be aware you will be watched and possibly followed by alligators.

Some have also ventured into the bayous of Houston in the past.

[potlatch]

[lol, how many FReepers have joked about doing this?]

This goes back to the old joke about solving three problems in one.

Dredge the Rio Grande deeper, take all the soil down to New Orleans to build it up, and then help Florida by taking alligators back to Texas and putting them in the Rio Grande to deter illegals!

[JRandomFreeper]

The alligator I had tasted fishy.

As a culinary professional, I can tell you that the meat was mishandled at some point in the chain (I'm guessing between catch and eviceration). Properly prepared alligator doesn't taste fishy.

/johnny

[SunkenCiv]

More of ‘em, and no more worries about that part of the border.

[JoeProBono]

[Berosus]

I visited that part of Texas in 1983. It’s a sparsely populated desert, so I’m mainly interested in knowing if the alligators can survive. If so, put more downstream, near Laredo and Brownsville.

[Grizzled Bear]

“Ace Rimmer” Red Dwarf Ping!

[Eagle Eye]

Haven’t had any in TX...all mine was in FL and mostly nuggets.

Gator nuggets and fried pickels...MMMmmmMMM...!

[OB1kNOb]

"Spears said the alligators are in a rural area, so they don't pose much danger to humans. He said it is believed they were dropped off in the area by someone who was previously keeping them.....

I like that someone already.

[Ditter]

If beef and fish are kept too long in the same freezer, the beef can become fishy tasting. The reason I know this is because we did it. The beef tasted awful and we ended up throwing it all away even though it was freezer wrapped. Maybe this happened to the alligator I ate.

[SunkenCiv]

Crocs survive in isolated shaded oasis-like pools in the midst of the desert in Africa; wonder if they’re inbred, and also, whether they’re cannibals.