I keep hearing that number that gators never kill anyone. BS, every year two or three people get it, You find it in the papers, but that total of only 17 since 1948 never changes. My parents have had one nearly 14 foot long in the ponds of their community. many 5 to 7 footers.
To say that only a million or so live in florida is NUTS> that number is way short, I can take you to places only minutes from DT tampa and show you a hundred or more at one sitting. The population is getting rediculous, it needs to be thinned hard. It was great to see them come back from the unharnessed pressures of the late fifties and sixties, but Gator are in places now that historically they never were. Females can drop a hundred eggs or so at a time, it does not take many years for that number to replenish the supply.
To say that only a million or so live in florida is NUTS> that number is way short, I can take you to places only minutes from DT tampa and show you a hundred or more at one sitting. The population is getting rediculous, it needs to be thinned hard. It was great to see them come back from the unharnessed pressures of the late fifties and sixties, but Gator are in places now that historically they never were. Females can drop a hundred eggs or so at a time, it does not take many years for that number to replenish the supply.