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Florida Alligator with Missing Upper Jaw Receives Fitting Name Inspired by Hit Song
The Pet Zealot ^ | October 11, 2023 | James Alain L.

Posted on 10/11/2023 10:00:22 AM PDT by allen592

A Florida alligator that gained widespread attention for its missing upper jaw has been given a fitting name inspired by a country song. The creature has been named "Jawlene," after the famous Dolly Parton song "Jolene," following a public call on social media.

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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alligators; animals; florida

1 posted on 10/11/2023 10:00:22 AM PDT by allen592
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To: allen592

The animal attendant holding the gator kind of looks like a young Dolly, at least from the neck up. The gator herself is small, about the same size as an Iguana.

Inventing the name Jaw-Line is clever, but they might want to get Ms Parton’s expressed permission. She is known to be very protective of her songs, as she should be. They have made her a millionaire many times over.


2 posted on 10/11/2023 10:09:00 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: allen592

Alligators are territorial and like a lot of animals, they cull out the weak, the big males will fight and run off the smaller less mature ones, the ones that survive are lucky and end up being really strong fighters, there is a reason alligators have survived for such a long time, natural selection is real in their world.


3 posted on 10/11/2023 10:10:50 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: allen592

I was at a crocodile preserve near Cairns in Queensland, Australia, and one of the star performers was an enormous toothless crock named “Dougie”. Dougie got there by being bad, trying, despite his lack of teeth, to eat a golfer. Ignoring a proffered chicken, Dougie went for one of the attendants’ legs, chasing him up a hill snapping at his heels. Later, the attendant admitted that reputation was everything in his business and the shame of being eaten by a toothless crocodile would just be more that he could bear.


4 posted on 10/11/2023 10:23:09 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: lee martell
Inventing the name Jaw-Line is clever, but they might want to get Ms Parton’s expressed permission. She is known to be very protective of her songs, as she should be.

When Iggy Popp was forming the Stooges, he actually called Moe Howard to ask for permission. Moe, gracious in real life, gave it without condition.
5 posted on 10/11/2023 10:26:46 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana

That was very courteous of (Wild Man) Iggy.


6 posted on 10/11/2023 10:37:22 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: PUGACHEV

I’ve been to the same preserve.
Cool place isn’t it!


7 posted on 10/11/2023 12:36:46 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: allen592

8 posted on 10/11/2023 1:15:17 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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