You aren't one of these are you? 😀
Posted on 04/12/2024 11:45:58 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Native to the Southern US and China, alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) among the largest reptiles in the world. They look very similar to their cousins, crocodiles, which people often mistake them for. However, while crocodiles have a broad and short U-shaped snout, that of the crocodile is V-shaped and pointed. If you study them carefully, you’ll notice more differences. There are numerous exciting, unique facts to learn about this fascinating reptile. For example, did you know that alligators have two eyelids and are related to dinosaurs? We bet you didn’t. If you’re interested in learning more exciting information about alligators, there’s more where that came from.
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Recently I hit a golf ball near a gator at Argent Lakes. Since we are in mating season when gators get aggressive, needless to say I let it go. Also make sure you take a flashlight with you at night. Gators migrate between ponds at night.
Back around 1961 or 1962 my brother got a baby alligator at some carnival. He was keeping it in the downstairs bathtub, but my parents got rid of it in a day or two. No open water nearby, so I don’t know where it ended up.
In the Bayou I reckon...
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/texas-alligator-turtle-escape-19358672.php
Brazos Bend State Park is about 15 minutes from my home.
You aren't one of these are you? 😀
For example, did you know that alligators have two eyelids and are related to dinosaurs?
LOL... they ARE dinosaurs!!!
😆
There you go. A new reality show: “Primordial” It’s where a human being has to kill a predatory animal because said animal wants to kill the human being. The human animal wants to stay alive.
Deep fried gator tail chunks
Nope, not one of those. When I was a kid a gang of us would get together to catch gators. I’m talking all of us around 10-years-old. Somebody would steal a rope from home, one would steal a grappling hook, and one would steal a whole chicken. We put the whole chicken on the hook and trolled the canals for gators. We always caught one. The thing about gators is that they roll. We teamed together to pull the rope. As we pulled the rope, the gator rolled himself up in it. Once he was on land and tangled, we tied our end to a tree and called Wildlife Resources.
At that time, hunting and killing them was illegal. Instead, the fish & game paid a bounty on each gator for relocation. That’s one of the ways we made store money. When they paid us, we divided it equally, jumped on our bikes, and headed to the store. It was the 60’s. Good times.
The only times I was almost bitten was while walking along the edge of the canals and it was always a small gator, under two feet. Mean little lizards. LOL The big ones didn’t bother people back then. They were hard on dogs and cats though.
Yes, you should. Some have recently been found in the Tennessee River near me.
We moved from the Everglade area to TN when I started high school. Our winters then were much colder. I still find it hard to believe that they are surviving here now.
Wonderful memories of growing up in the Olde South at the tail end of America’s Golden Era! You were blessed! I would have been more wary of cottonmoiths around the waters’ edge!
I grew up in the 40’s-50’s and know those times too albeit in the north but of southern heritage.
Stay well!☺️
You too!
When my daughter was a young teen, we took the bass boat to Lake Okeechobee to fish. On the drive there I told her over and over, “don’t trail your fingers in the water like you do back home”. Well, I turned my head to see her fingers in the water. She saw the Cottonmouth just before it grabbed her and jerked her hand out of the water. It scared her (and her dad) enough that she sat in the bottom of the boat the rest of the time with her arms crossed. LOL
Oh jeez! Nothing like a close call to get one’s mind right!
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