[DallasBiff]

Hey it's Friday, mods pull if not appropriate.

35 years ago I was working at a WDW resort, that had a 10 ft. deep pond, and a 6 ft. alligator showed up. He would sun himself on the grass, and we called him "sunny", we told all guests, to stay away from him.

But that didn't work with a New Yorker who tried to pet "Sunny" and was chased by Sunny.

A day after a gator trap was installed, with a dead chicken as bait.

Yes I know gators are dangerous, and people and children have died, but it is an humouros story.

[FamiliarFace]

Gator ping!

[Red Badger]

“...while crocodiles have a broad and short U-shaped snout, that of the crocodile...”

Editor!.....................

[Sirius Lee]

They also don’t taste all that good, I don’t care how much sauce you use.

[V_TWIN]

“If you’re interested in learning more exciting information about alligators, there’s more where that came from.”

All I need to know is as long as you cook it right the tail meat is DELISH! 😁

[ladyjane]

The other eyelid isn’t a real eyelid, it’s a nictitating membrane that slides across the eye. Many animals have them.

[kawhill]

That’s what we need on the southern border, in the Rio Grande River, gators, lot’s of them. That would be a deterrent to the illegals trying to cross. “Come on in boys, the water’s fine”.

[ansel12]

As kids we used to catch snapping turtles in the drainage ditch and follow that on down to Buffalo Bayou (Houston) to do stuff in the jungle there which is where we caught a baby alligator and added it to the snapping turtle pond we had dug in the backyard, we used bamboo vaulting poles to keep us on the banks of the very large drainage ditch and also to pole vault across it at some points and of course to mess with the various creatures, turtles, water moccasins, and whatever else was in the path of the prefeminized boys of America.

This was in the days when no one knew what the little boys were doing all day and didn’t care.

[Bonemaker]

Any cajuns on here? Where is the best spot to shoot them?

[mabarker1]

Wallygator says "Hi !!!

[xoxox]

11. Machines Programmed to Kill. Useful only as a side dish to barbeque.

[FLT-bird]

GO GATORS!

[MtnClimber]

I grew up on a lake in central Florida. I am not sure that the statute of limitations are up on all the stories I could tell about alligators. I only got bit once by a really small alligator that bit a top water fishing lure and wouldn’t let go. I was in 8th grade and learned how hard even a small one can bite and how badly they can cut you with their claws. I did not learn to stop messing with alligators, only how not to get bitten and clawed.

[lepton]

“...while crocodiles have a broad and short U-shaped snout, that of the crocodile is V-shaped and pointed...”

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That rather jumps out.

[DesertRhino]

When I was in 1st grade I got a baby alligator at the pet store. We’d feed him little chunks of ground beef. One day he leapt up and bit dad’s finger.
When I got home from school the next day, he was gone. Mysteriously he died when I was at school.

There was a creek about 75 yards behind our house.

I suspect he is back there somewhere today... 16 feet long.

[nutmeg]

Guess we better learn more about these critters since we finally moved to coastal South Carolina, lol.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Back around 1961 or 1962 my brother got a baby alligator at some carnival. He was keeping it in the downstairs bathtub, but my parents got rid of it in a day or two. No open water nearby, so I don’t know where it ended up.

[Chode]

For example, did you know that alligators have two eyelids and are related to dinosaurs?

LOL... they ARE dinosaurs!!!