A 3 foot alligator or cayman isactually a small animal as at that stage of growth it is mostly tail. When
i worked at a power plant in Florida as a security guard one of the things I had to do was shoo the gators off the parking lot at night.The grown ones didn’t go there and the babies of up to about 40 inches were silly looking because they were massive tails with very small bodies attached.
I occasionally have to stop going to and from work to let a gator cross the road..................