[Red Badger]

Cabeza de Vaca?..........😏

[Carry_Okie]

What about him?

The reason I posted that is that there is an overriding culture in this country that “Natural wildlands” would include lots of predators, and that therefore the ubiquity of alligators now must be a good thing to be tolerated. But that is NOT the way Indians shaped the continent over tens of millennia to which the entire vegetative system became used (to include regular fire). Predator mediated competition sucks as a wildlife system in terms of its productivity. They can have their uses, but only in limited instances.

If alligators would get rid of Burmese pythons in the Glades (for example), they’d almost be worth the trouble.

[Menehune56]

Cabeza de Vaca?..........😏

I knew nothing about him either and the name sounds satirical at least to modern ears. Interesting history of this enlightened explorer of the New World:

https://www.indigenousmexico.org/articles/alvar-nunez-cabeza-de-vaca-from-conquistador-to-indigenous-advocate