That Disney lagoon is a magnet for those gators. The entire park sits on what was previously their habitat....a swamp, right?
We have gators, here in SE TX, in our golf course ponds! They will find murky water, and settle right in. We had neighbors who live on a creek and were having issues with their family pets missing. They kept worrying that it would be a child, next. The dads trapped the gator, but that was one of how many?
Disney is supposed to be trapping the gators over 4’. This one - and the one that chased the Brit family, recently were over 4’.
So sad. I just cannot imagine.
Played a lot of golf when I lived in Louisiana. Green on third hole of one course had a lot of small holes on it, other than the cup. If one happened to swallow your ball, you just let it be and got out a new one as all holes were inhabited by snakes. Fairway on #5 was between two bayous. Gators frequently walked across the fairway from one side to another. Never bothered the locals. They even had names for a few of them. After a year or so I finally got used to their presence.
“Disney is supposed to be trapping the gators over 4’. This one - and the one that chased the Brit family, recently were over 4’.”
I think they need to drop the size issue and trap anything they come across of. This one that attacked the boy might have been in back of the area for years and finally decided to come to the populated area.