The Green Gator Phenomena

[Shek]

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/...-phenomena.htm

It’s all over the news: Alligators have been eating people in Florida again. Gators get a bad rap from bad press, making this a good moment to test your knowledge of a living dinosaur. One that has been on earth in the same form for over 200 million years.

Question: What color are alligators?

TH/Confed,
You guys got any good gator stories?

[TopHatter]

TH/Confed,
You guys got any good gator stories?

Plenty of good stories.

They all involve me seeing a gator at a distance of more than 20 feet and not getting eaten.

Oh yes, and they go great on the grill and taste like chicken.

Seriously though, it's been my good fortune not to have had any close encounters, except at Busch Gardens.

The non-nesting American alligator is - generally speaking - extremely shy around humans, unless some complete fkking idiot has decided to feed one.
That's when they start losing that shyness and later make headlines.

I used to work in the same company as this guy who once told me how funny it was to feed them. I explained to him why this was a bad idea. He laughed, shrugged and said something to the effect of "who cares"?

Like I said: complete fkking idiot.

[dalem]

Personally I prefer the phytosaurs - late Triassic crocodile-precursors.

50 feet long.

"50 foot crocs".

-dale

[TopHatter]

Personally I prefer the phytosaurs - late Triassic crocodile-precursors.

50 feet long.

"50 foot crocs".

-dale

Good lord what a beast

I'm quite thankful that crocs are rare in the U.S.

Those buggers are quite aggressive compared to your average no-human-contact alligator.

[2DREZQ]

If I lived where Gators wandered around the neighborhood, you'd never catch me outside with out my buddies: Smith & Wesson.

[TopHatter]

If I lived where Gators wandered around the neighborhood, you'd never catch me outside with out my buddies: Smith & Wesson.

That would be any place near a freshwater or brackish water lake, canal etc. in Florida and several other states as well.

[ArmchairGeneral]

I just got back from a trip to Georgia. Went canoeing in the Okefenokee swamp, saw a bunch of alligators. We were paddling down a narrow canal, several times we just about run over a 'gator. At one point we went past a sunning gator right on the edge of the canal, could of touched him with my paddle. Wasn't more than 8 feet away, maybe 7 or 8 feet long. Scared my mom a bit, but there really wasn't any thing we could do but pass by him, the canal was about 5 feet wide at that point.