Amazing footage highlighting the exotic state of Florida’s natural offerings was recently shared to social media, showing how alligators run rampant throughout the state. The video shows a driver who had their commute interrupted by what appeared to be a mother gator crossing the street as her hatchlings followed suit.
The clip, which featured the text across the screen, “Florida traffic is different,” showed the medium-sized gator, which appeared to be between 6 and 7 feet long, trekking across the pavement. Simultaneously, roughly a dozen tiny hatchlings followed their mother to the other side. The video was shared by the popular X account “Nature is Amazing,” who described the incident as a “traffic jam in Florida.”
The popular account Wall Street Mav wrote, “That is wild. Never seen anything like that. It’s like a duck with her little ducklings.” Another person wrote, “Imagine waking up and having one of these guys sunbathing on your lawn. Happened minimum once a year for me when I lived in Florida.”
Quoting the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, one user posted, “Courtship begins in early April, & mating occurs in May or June. Females build a mound nest of soil, vegetation, or debris & deposit an average of 32 to 46 eggs in late June or early July. Incubation requires approx. 63-68 days, & hatching occurs from mid-Aug. through early Sep.”
The American Tribune recently reported on another harrowing incident in which a Florida resident trapped an alligator loose in his neighborhood by coralling the beast into a trashcan.Speaking to WESH 2, Eugene Bozzi said, “Somebody’s gotta step up and do something, we all got to look out for each other right? I was frightened when I had it in it, because it was so powerful. And I didn’t expect that, it was pushing out, whipping its tail around.” The 6-foot gator was found in front yard of a home of Orange County resident Denise Sparks, who had no idea it was outside until she heard the commotion.
“I would have been gator food, I would have fainted,” she said. “I said, ‘What in the world is going on?’ I heard boom boom boom.” Citing his experience in the military, Bozzi’s instincts were triggered, prompting him to mitigate the situation. “Army training kicked in, get it done, dropping it in, keep moving,” he said about his brave mitigation of the incident.
In another display of the exotic wilderness of Florida, The Tribune covered an incident in which a gator was seen dragging a massive python through the Everglades National Park. Users on social media had varying reactions, with some wowed by the incident with others praising the gator killing the invasive snake species, which has devastated the Everglades ecosystem.
Watch the Gator crossing below:
One person commented on Facebook, “I’ve never been to florida, let alone the US, but I’m starting to think this city is as good as Australia when it comes to things that give me the heebie-geebies 🫣”. One man weighed in on the matter, stated, “First of all the snake has been dead for a while. In fact probably several days. The corpse is swollen and floating. Secondly a gator that size did not kill a snake that length.”
One person highlighted the problem with invasive pythons in the area, commenting, “Good, more gators need to follow suit. Pythons are invasive to the area and have been wreaking havoc for a decade now, changing the whole ecosystem system. If not controlled, they could fail the whole Everglades, and it would be the butterfly effect for the East Coast.”
Watch the video of Bozzi capturing the gator with a trashcan below:
Watch the gator with the python in the Everglades here:
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