Gotta love Floridas native critters

Little fella was trying to cross a few lanes

 

The gator thinkin' "You're just pulling me back to my starting point."

 

Yep...lol. That thing could have swung around so easily and taken him down.

 

Aren't they like dogs where you flick their nose and they chill? Lol

 

"This here is the florida aligator. Crikey, look at the teeth on this baby! One snap of it's jaws and i'm a gonner!.....i'm gonna pull its tail."

 

They actually have a Florida crocodile too. Not aggressive like the African ones thankfully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_crocodile

 

Oh cool. Didn't know that. Crocs and gators are fascinating to me. There was an episode of River Monsters where Jeremy Wade dove in a river and was underwater with a massive croc. Super cool stuff.

 

Yeah I find them neat also. Most of the time they really aren't a threat to humans. Fun fact, there are alligators in every county of Florida.

Also, there is another animal that's similar called a Caiman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_caiman

 

Florida man... Florida man. Ugh, I gotta get out of FL. If you like it here, more power to ya but no apologies from me.
I can't stand the weather (sunshine state is a LIE), the bugs, the lack of soil, the backwoodsyness of a lot of the people, people's lack of respect for their fellow man... shit i could go on and on. Now I've made myself angry at the very existence in this place.

 

I named my boat "Caiman".

 

My wife studied them in the Everglades. They would wrestle them into a boat, pull blood, and tag them. I've also worked with alot of gators. Lot of fun, great for the adrenaline.

 

I ran a wildlife rehab clinic in SW FL and worked at numerous wildlife parks and zoos in FL. Bald Eagles are my favorite. I actually got tagged on the face by a Bald Eagle. Required 8 sutures, and the crazy thing was I didn't feel it because their beaks are so sharp. The doctor asked me "what happened?" I said a Bald Eagle cut me with it's beak. He said "no, really, what happened?"

 

Try South Carolina, we have seasons yet don't know what a "Snow Load" is.

I saw a road kill gator in S GA couple of years ago. I noticed his tail had been hacked off. Asked about it and was told the rednecks will do that to fresh kills for the meat...ok.

 

Taste like chicken! Sort of. More like a combo chicken and fish.

 

Oh I've had it, not opposed to doing it again but off a road kill??

 

Mmmmm. That's GOOD eatin.

 

Lol yeah they eat some weird crap up there. You from there or just stationed at Shaw or Charleston?

 

Live here, Upstate, away from the hurricanes.
What's weird about Frogmore Stew?

 

Im originally from Myrtle Beach but my parents lived in Greenville/Travelers Rest right off of Hwy 26 near Furman University.

 

Hwy 25 maybe? I26 doesn't go through Greenville/TR.

Know the road well, slip up through there on the way to the mountains.

 

Yep, like chicken fried in fish grease. Nasty.

 

So I live in Lake Charles area in South Louisiana and there is a professor at the college here that has done research and discovered that alligator blood has some extreme immune properties. They get cuts/limbs missing, gashes....are in this funk water with lots of bacteria, yet are never sick. Article here from our local station. https://www.kplctv.com/story/21412671/alligator-blood-tested-as-new-antibiotic/
Now as a native, we eat them. They are good when cooked properly. I don't mess with them and keep my distance. I know I'm from Louisiana, but don't hold that against me. I don't have relations with my family members or anything....anymore. lol

 

that is a no from me.