When Cabeza de Vaca crossed the southern region of North America between 1528 and 1536, his diary observations do not include a single alligator.
Indians ate them.
Hold muh beer and watch me play chicken with the train.
Cabeza de Vaca?..........😏
When I stayed at an AirBNB in a rural part of SE Oklahoma a few years ago, a neighborhood sign on the way in warned to “Beware the snakes and alligators.” I thought it was a joke but was informed the alligators there were real.