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Do not underestimate the alligators!
I say this based on a new video that matches my argument last week that Americans are lucky enough to live with alligators, not crocodiles. As the Daily Mail notes, a keen-eyed observer recorded an alligator climbing a fence at Jacksonville Naval Air Station last weekend. The fence is quite high and the alligator has managed his acrobatic effort. From here our main lesson of the day: those who live near alligator habitats should not trust fences to prevent alligators from entering.
If the alligators want to enter, apparently, they enter. This Jacksonville alligator is not alone. From South Carolina, we have video of another alligator climbing a domestic fence!
In addition, the acrobatics of the alligators show how much they are also very competent hunters. It's a good thing.
With 1.3 million alligators living in Florida, this healthy population controls the healthy population of these animals they eat: turtles, birds and various mammals. This promotes sustainable habitats.
Fishing in alligator infested waters is still much less dangerous than in crocodile infested waters. Unlike the "salties" (see video at the end of this article), alligators do not seem to have killed a human being by throwing themselves out of the water and pulling them out of the boats.
One last point. Our human fascination with crocodiles and alligators is not new. Adrian Goldsworthy, in his book Pax Romana, tells how "Ptolemaic Egypt developed as an official visit to visit the Romans, including a trip to the Nile and the opportunity to see crocodiles sacred feed.
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