[Red Badger]

[NEMDF]

OH MY GOODNESS

That is YUGE!

[Equine1952]

He should take it home for a support alligator.

[Cicero]

“Come closer. You’d make a good snack!”

[tet68]

Bang, bang!

Nope, no boots on that one either.

[TangledUpInBlue]

What did they do with this thing?

[Larry Lucido]

[M Kehoe]

Roll the beast over.
Field dress it.
Get lots of ice.

Fillet the tail, hang and dry the skin.

Call restaurants and garment manufacturers.

Easy $8,000

5.56mm

[Bell Bouy II]

Ate good for a long time,”Anyone seen mah’dawg”

[moovova]

“Alright Lem, I’ll get his tail. You get the other end.”

[Disambiguator]

Massive 700-pound alligator in Georgia discovered in irrigation ditch

As opposed to a dimunitive 700-pound alligator, I suppose.

[bigbob]

How much is that in shoes?

[ExNewsExSpook]

My first tour as a USAF officer was at Moody AFB near Valdosta, GA, affectionately known as “Moody by the Swamp.” Plenty of gators in those swamps, and in the small lake off the end of the runway that served as an on-base recreation area. No swimming allowed (for obvious reasons), but you could fish and compete against the gators for crappie and bass—a losing proposition, at best.

At the time (late 80s) Moody was an F-4 base, converting to the F-16. One summer day, an eight-foot gator decided he’d had enough of the lake, climbed out, strolled across the perimeter road and onto the outer edge of the aircraft ramp. He found a shady spot beneath the wing of a Phantom and decided to rest a spell. When the crew chiefs, pilot and WSO arrived to launch the jet for a training mission, the gator was not very happy, and chased the airmen away. Security forces arrived on the scene and proposed shooting the critter, but gators were still a protected species in those days, so the idea was rejected.

Ultimately, a state fish and wildlife crew were summoned and they captured the gator. The crew shifted to another jet and the mission went off on schedule. The gator was moved to Grassy Pond, the larger, off-base recreation area that was home to an even bigger reptile population. And since alligators can live up to 50 years (or longer) he could still be at Grassy Pond.

[Veto!]

Absolutely tragic that this magnificent gator who’d apparently caused no trouble whatsoever had to be euthanized. They could have taken him to a bigger swamp. I think.

[LibWhacker]

these animals get this large is by avoiding humans

No, these alligators get this large by dumb human beings banning or severely limiting the hunting of them.

[neal1960]

Gator country. https://youtu.be/PTR13MV4fqc

[max americana]

“”the only way these animals get this large is by avoiding humans.”

Huh? I thought they get that large by EATING humans..

[bk1000]

I saw a 13-foot gator at the Okefenokee Swamp once. That’s a lot of alligator. It really is startling to see a creature that large. It seems unnatural. There was no fence, but they keep her well fed. They advised me not to get too close and I acknowledge that that would not be a concern.

[SuperLuminal]

"...the only way these animals get this large is by avoiding humans."

More likely the only way these animals get this large is by avoiding eating humans.

Need to have a few thousand of these returned to nature just south of the U.S. border... Then they could get really large...

[nutmeg]

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[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...



Don't know what the deal is, I copied and pasted directly from the "Sandbox" instructions, it still won't resize these to half size, I used pixel dimensions and 50%...not sure what is going on but everything else is working perfect..here is what I posted, I altered it so maybe you can see the code, by removing the arrows at each end

img src="https://i.postimg.cc/Njmd7dkr/gator-P73599.jpg" "width=500">
That's the code for the 2nd image, only thing removed is the arrows < > at each end.