Massive 700-pound alligator in Georgia discovered in irrigation ditch

FOX News ^ | 03-02-2019 | By Madeline Farber

[Hiddigeigei]

One of the Orlando poems written in the late 15th century (I think it was “Orlando innamorato”), tells of a sorcerer in Egypt guarded by dragons called crocodiles.

[EEGator]

I prefer dead. There’s no shortage of gators.

[Paleo Pete]

I live close to a lake in Texas. We have gators here bigger than that, I've seen them. 15 feet is not unheard of, plenty in the 5 to 8 foot range. Neighbor watched one cross a small hump of land that goes into a nearby creek, broke off a small stick to measure its rear footprint. 15 inches. I've seen as many as 5 at a time ranging 5 to 8 or 9 feet. One swam by my 12 foot boat one day, about 30 feet away, longer than the boat... Here is a gator I spotted in a North Louisiana lake, I'd estimate 14 feet long. That's a red oak leaf about 4 or 5 inches wide on the back of its head.



Shot of just the head, over 2 feet long. The eyes are big as golf balls. This was shot from about 20 feet away, and up a 10 foot cliff. No, I'm not getting that close to a critter that big unless it can't reach me...if it were a normal water level bank, I would have been long gone...That's mud, it had been in a den somewhere during cool fall weather, came out for a warm spell. Date is Nov 8, 2011.

Yep, I'm a coward...



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[Red Badger]

Yep, and at Duke Field..................

[Red Badger]

They examined it and it was supposedly in ill health..............

[Red Badger]

Howze said that the alligator had several previous injuries — including what appeared to be old gunshot wounds — when he was found. Due to his poor conditions and old age, the team decided to euthanize him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-alligator-found-in-lake-blackshear-flint-river-georgia/

[ExNewsExSpook]

I’ve been to Hurlburt and Eglin several times...no shortage of gators in the Florida panhandle.

[Red Badger]

Take some home with you the next time you come down! We’ve got aplenty!................

[Red Badger]

My relatives live very near there, in Georgia and Florida...................

[Georgia Girl 2]

Thats a lot of fried gator tail.

[Veto!]

Yes, thanks, alligator had injuries and gunshot wounds. What an old warrior of a beast. Gotta admire whatever kept it going. Like Trump, besieged from all sides and continuing to be Trump.

[Robert DeLong]

Five members of the Stokes family captured and killed a giant alligator at the Alabama River on August 16, 2014, which measured 15 feet and 9 inches long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds. Most sources pick this one as the largest alligator ever recorded.

[Red Badger]

[Robert DeLong]

[Red Badger]

This one looks bigger.................