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#164656 - 09/16/17 12:19 PM Gators might be smarter than I thought
LarryWW1246 Offline
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On a car trip with a couple of friends last week, I was telling them about a TV show about the Everglades and how gators move into the potholes during the dry season. Egrets nest in the trees around those ponds and will fly down to scoop floating sticks to use in building the nests. They showed an alligator floating along with a stick across its snout, and when an egret swooped down it grabbed the bird and took it underwater, including an underwater shot of the gator with the bird. The narrator said they had heard stories about gators doing this, but it had never been filmed.

Then one of my friends told me that some years ago he was walking along the shore of a pond in Hilton Head near some condos. A three-year-old boy was standing at the edge of the pond, and threw a tennis ball into the water. A gator surfaced by the ball, took it into his mouth, brought it in near the waterline, dropped it there, and backed off a couple of feet. My friend called to the boy’s father who was in the background, telling him that there was a gator and it would eat his boy. As the father approached the boy, the gator submerged and swam away.

My friend was convinced that the gator was trying to entice the boy to come closer to pick up the tennis ball.

I don’t know if he is right, but I’m thinking that maybe gators can be cunning.


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#164658 - 09/16/17 02:56 PM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: LarryWW1246]
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That may be one reason they made it when the dinosaurs went extinct.

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#164659 - 09/16/17 03:23 PM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: pappy19]
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Larry,

You mentioned Hilton Head. One of Miss Deb's neighbor's in her springtine condo complex was walking his German Shepard on the banks of the creek out back. A big gator attacked the dog; the neighbor was also bit severly in the leg before the gator drowned the dog. The neighbor died a week later from sepsis.
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#164660 - 09/16/17 04:46 PM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: W Polidori]
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Ya ever notice how here in Louisiana we don't have those kind of stories!
Here we just have recipes for how to eat the gator.
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#164661 - 09/16/17 06:02 PM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: Chief]
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Here's a couple at the Hilton Head property taken this past May.


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#164662 - 09/16/17 07:48 PM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: Chief]
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Originally Posted By: Chief
Ya ever notice how here in Louisiana we don't have those kind of stories!
Here we just have recipes for how to eat the gator.

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#164663 - 09/16/17 07:50 PM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: W Polidori]
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Cajun style!


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#164669 - 09/16/17 09:27 PM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: Chief]
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Lazy gator taking a boat ride. He's still smiling.
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#164689 - 09/17/17 08:52 AM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: W Polidori]
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Chief, why the picture of the small one???
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#164690 - 09/17/17 09:14 AM Re: Gators might be smarter than I thought [Re: CrazyCajun]
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This Florida gator found a LSU Tiger


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