#alligator

#alligator

Tour a Shelter for Rescued AlligatorsSome people try to make house pets out of alligators. It can be fun when they're tiny, but eventually they grow several feet long, which is not sustainable for most households. Hand-raised alligators can't fend for themselves in the wild, so what's to become of them?

A 9-Foot Alligator in Sunset Beach, North Carolina Takes A Stroll Through a Neighborhood and Tries to Muscle his way Into the Community Pool AreaIt appears that dogs aren't the only ones who can enjoy a stroll through the neighborhood.Local residents reported a 9-foot alligator roaming through the Oyster Bay Drive neighborhood in North Carolina on Friday, October 15, 2021. Police officers from the Sunset Beach Police Department got the call and immediately went there. They also said that it attempted to enter the pool area of the community.The alligator had broken through the porch lattice at the reservation officer's residence when the police officers arrived. Thankfully, the officers put the gator on a leash and took it to a neighboring pond where it could relax.Images by:Sunset Beach Police Department#Alligator #9foot #Carolina #Sunset 

How to Catch an Alligator with a Garbage CanWhat do you do when there's an alligator in your yard and he doesn't want to leave? If you live in Florida, you need to consider that it might happen. A man identified in some news accounts as Eugene Bozzi and others as Abdul Gene Malik, also known as Florida Man in the most superhero-like use of the term, took matters into his own hands when it happened in Mount Dora.

Rare Albino Alligators Hatch at Florida ZooThere are only about 200 albino alligators in the world, and two of them are newly-hatched gator babies at Wild Florida zoo. Two more of them are their parents, Snowflake and Blizzard. Wild Florida says, “We’re so proud of our albino alligator parents, Snowflake and Blizzard, and our Croc Squad team for helping these hatchlings,” says our co-owner and co-founder Sam Haught. “With our Croc Squad overseeing these eggs, we’re hoping that these alligators will help engage more visitors, locals and tourists alike, with their environment.”Albinism is the result of a recessive gene that impeded the production of the melanin that normally provides the animal's color. It is rare in alligators because lack of color makes young gators highly visible to predators. Read more about the albino alligators at Smithsonian.(Image credit: Wild Florida) #albino #alligator #WildFloridaZoo #albinism