Alligator attacks van driving through Florida floodwaters

How often do gators eat? Not anywhere near as much as people would think! A large alligator can eat less in a year than a small dog, because they don’t produce their own body heat and they do not have nearly the same metabolic with requirements as a mammal does! That being said, if I offered food, they will eat every single day and become obese, they are always hungry! So no, we don’t feed them before working with them because it doesn’t matter, as I’ve said many times, I have watched alligator

PSA never feed a wild alligator!! Please share and help get the word out, never feed a wild gator! Feeding them causes them to lose their natural fear of humans and come too close, sometimes resulting in a person being killed and almost always with the alligator being killed. I can’t tell you how many people who meant well tell me they love gators and feed them all the time, only to realize they are directly responsible for that gators death. Different states handle things differently, but in Fl

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