Prayers up for the family.
Nick Wiley, executive director of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which spearheaded the search, said the American alligator was feeding and likely confused the small child for a dog or a raccoon. The gators do not typically feed on humans. “People – even small people – are not their typical prey,” he said.
We’re talking about a primitive animal largely unchanged since the age of the dinosaurs. It’s only calculation is prey, of convenient size, and opportunity. The only reason children are not its typical prey is lack of opportunity.
Clearly it’s heartless of you to take a realistic approach to this. Somehow.
Prayers up for the family.
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Exactly!
Exactly what I was thinking, if alligators had the opportunity they would eat more humans, the only reason they don’t is lack of opportunity.