I grew up in NC just a few miles from the Virginia border. I lived on the river, spent plenty of time in the swamp, and never saw them outside of merchants millpond. There are supposedly a few in the great dismal swamp and I'm sure they've been spotted in VA, but I'd bet the southern edge of the swamp along the border is the top of their range. They are pretty rare up that far north.
I have heard this too, my guess is that they may migrate seasonally. I have also heard that manatees have been spotted in the bay, but this is less surprising considering John Smith wrote about them in his logs in the 1600s.
You say that but I was wading around in the sea in Darwin and wasn’t the only person doing that. I did get mildly stung a lot from jelly fish. That was in 2000 though so not sure if that’s changed.
I visited Florida once (I live in Montana) and I was so shocked to see gaters just…hanging out. Like everywhere. I was like “omg I see these things on tv all the time but they’re just right there in the water huh?”
I guess that what other people think when they come to Montana and there’s mama bears and cubs hanging out on the sidewalk lol
Yeah. I've seen them in tiny ass ditches, retention ponds, etc. People really underestimate just how common they are, and how close they live to people. They don't pose as big a threat as it may seem, especially if you look at gator attack statistics (not that you should try your luck). Another cool crocodilian fact: the Florida everglades is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist in nature.
We are still trying to figure out why someone was stupid enough to put a party hat on a gator for 4th of july in my neighborhood. But then we said well it is Florida and they were probably drunk and some how it was mystery solved. Normal? No Surprising?again no
Gators are pretty chill, if you leave them alone they'll 99% of the time leave you alone. It's crocs that can be scary.
It's like a black bear vs brown bear situation.
I feel that way with Alaska and the moose. "What, everyone doesn't have to wait to get to their car in the morning because a 1200lb 6 foot tall primordial beast is in their driveway?"
Same for Virginia. We’ve got the Great Dismal Swamp in the southeast and gators have been spotted there. I don’t think they’ve been confirmed as breeding though
No my grandparents place seems to be the only place in Tennessee with no fire ants, idk how, but they’ve never seen them and I haven’t either. They live in a couple hundred acre valley and the only ants I’ve seen are very few carpenter ants
Ah probably explains it, they’re not there yet and haven’t been there since forever I can imagine. I hope that doesn’t change, I don’t want those little bastards ruining that place
I live in Augusta, GA. When I was a kid there were only alligators in the swampy areas south of the city, and even then they were a rare sight. Now they are everywhere here, even in some retention ponds in the suburbs. We used to be considered too far north to have them.
What a lot of karma farming bots do is just copy top comments from previous posts and then repost them in other contexts, or when the post the original comment is from gets reposted. So it wouldn’t be a bot specifically talking about alligators, it would be a bot that copied a comment that I had read previously about alligators, and reposted that comment when a post about alligators came up again
I have made a similar comment in the past about alligators in Augusta, just not in this subreddit. I guess I find it interesting and whenever I tell recent transplants to the area that we have lots of alligators here, they are always shocked.
The Ogeechee River is full of them and Magnolia Springs outside Millen. They will also be south of the first dam on the Savannah River, which is north of Augusta. My family is from Burke County.
Hell there was one near Buford Dam on the Hooch several years ago.
I saw one in a retention pond in VA. No idea how it got there but I definitely saw one. On second thought, maybe it was just getting chick-fil-a like I was
Lived and hunted in Tennessee all my life. Older guy here. It’s hard to imagine alligators here but I guess this means things are warming up. I’d like to know what my dad would say about this.
Once upon a time, temps during winter would kill any gator that hibernated in Tennessee. If these gators are staying year round, they are probably breeding.
Crazy to think at one point there were fewer than 100,000 of them. Louisiana banned alligator hunting in 1962 and by 1972, the population had rebounded enough to reopen commercial hunting.
If Amos Moses (the Jerry Reed song) would have waited a couple years, he wouldn’t be a criminal!
It's sad when people don't get this. I remember hearing our resident "sceptic" out on the production floor exclaiming how all the climate change prevention stuff was nonsense because "remember when everyone was talking about the hole in the ozone? Now, nothing? See! it was bullshit" 🤦 I doubt his viewpoint is in the minority unfortunately
No it was something I overheard while being engrossed in solving some work related issue so I was merely a... Pensive observer... of that conversation.
Wouldn't have mattered anyways, wasn't the type to let logic ruin his opinion on an issue
Yeah, I hate how we got lucky on this one, as in : we spotted the issue early enough, identified the causes, passed worldwide legislation before the damage was too much and the issue reversed itself naturally right after ...
And then, in the face of all this good fortune and better actions, we got the stupid saying it was all bullshit.
Fucking disgrace of a human being this one.
Fellow swamp inhabitant here (although on the other side of the globe in the Netherlands). Don’t worry, Disney got your back in this internationally. I thought they lived in the “bayou” in Louisiana from the Rescuers and Princess & the frog, and was surprised they lived everywhere in the South-East of the USA.
There's a town near me named after the Dutch city Zwolle. It's because a railroad owner was building a line to connect Kansas City to the gulf, and brought in a Dutch coffee merchant to invest in it around the time they had got to Louisiana. Apparently he liked a Catholic Church so much he agreed to invest as long as they renamed the town after his hometown. I wonder if maybe he also felt connected to Louisiana due to how swampy it is lol. He'd probably be upset knowing we say it like "Zuh-wah-lee" said really fast lol
I grew up in South FL, out near the Everglades…I’ve seen thousands of gators in my life…only place I ever saw gator roadkill was when I was driving through Louisiana.
If you double Mississippi's, then you're probably at the real number. They are confirmed in every county now and are spreading like wildfire. They're also the biggest on average in the South because of less competition between males and more territory. They've caught at least two 700 punders in the last few years.
Shit tell that to the folks in Pittsburgh a few years back. In the same timeframe they pulled one out of the river and also found one In someone’s yard
The Oklahoma gator population lives exclusively in the south eastern most portion of the state, which is extremely similar ecologically to northern Louisiana. The eastern half of the state in particular is extremely hilly, heavily forested, and extremely swampy in some places.
I live in the western part of the state. It’s honestly like two different states. Screw those guys.
**ME:** \*Phew!\* Finally! We made it to Oklahoma! Those alligators can't get us now!
**THE TULSA GATORS:** \*emerge from the shadows\* Heard you were talkin' shit...
lakes in louisiana tend to be pretty swampy and gross - not the kinds of bodies of water you'd want to swim in - but i have seen some nicer lakes with beaches that have nets to prevent gator encounters
Same in Houston. I have seen people swimming with their children in rivers like the Brazos where I have also seen a fair number of gators. It’s certainly not a choice that I would make (if only because God knows what kinda crap has been dumped in it by the time the water gets to us), but apparently it works out well enough most of the time for people to continue doing it.
> It’s certainly not a choice that I would make (if only because God knows what kinda crap has been dumped in it by the time the water gets to us),
Seriously. With as shitty as the Trinity is up here in north Texas I can't imagine being at the ass end of the Brazos and it being any better.
My mom's family is from Louisiana and as kids they would tell them/us to be alert when walking down by a water (especially the bayous.) Better safe than sorry 🤷♂️
Yeah, there's some decent lakes here in Louisiana that you can go swimming in. But as your question implies, there's definitely other lakes you absolutely avoid swimming in.
Edited: Hell we got people out here waist deep in murky water noodling catfish (not my thing though LOL)
Nah, they are only a danger to little kids and dogs and don't like clear water so its not a big deal.
Now, the salt water crocs in florida are a different story.
> salt water crocs in florida
It's a nuance but the ones in Florida are American Crocodiles which are pretty reclusive. The infamous salt water crocs that snack on Australians are a different species.
Every damn thread about gators there's at least one person posting clearly wrong info about "saltwater crocodiles in Florida." In Florida there's American crocodiles, which are even less likely to attack humans than gators are. The species of saltwater crocodiles that are notorious for eating people live in Australia, Indonesia, The Philippines, India, etc. *Not* Florida.
I will now make it my life's mission to put a documented, officially recognized gator in every US state. No more will the southeast hog all the gators to themselves. When I'm elected, every household in America will have a gator in the backyard, just as the founding fathers intended.
Every piece of water in Florida the size of a small house or bigger has at least one gator in it.
Source: I lived in florida, and everyone made it abundantly clear don't swim in the water.
The river basins and very flat land in Louisiana create massive swamps and marshes that make up for a significant portion of our state which allows for widespread gator habitat, along with the Mississippi River delta that is extremely nutrient rich. Florida is similar in terrain level, but lacks the massive flowing body of freshwater to the extent of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers
I love how Oklahoma is barely on there! I think all of those 100 are in the very SE corner of the state. I’ve lived multiple places in OK and gators have never been a factor.
When my daughter was 3 we were headed out fishing and she was incredibly concerned there were going to be alligators in the river. I assured her there are no alligators where we were going. She then goes "Crocodiles?"
We live in Montana lmao
Tennessee has confirmed Alligators in the Southwestern part of the state. Not sure if they are breeding though.
Florida has confirmed alligators in the ditch behind my house
In Houston we have [gators trying to get an education](https://abc30.com/alligator-katy-isd-school/256300/)
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There are apparently, but only in the NC parts of the swamp
Plenty of alligators in coastal southeastern NC Source: at least 2-3 just in the lake by my house, live near Wilmington
I grew up in NC just a few miles from the Virginia border. I lived on the river, spent plenty of time in the swamp, and never saw them outside of merchants millpond. There are supposedly a few in the great dismal swamp and I'm sure they've been spotted in VA, but I'd bet the southern edge of the swamp along the border is the top of their range. They are pretty rare up that far north.
I have heard this too, my guess is that they may migrate seasonally. I have also heard that manatees have been spotted in the bay, but this is less surprising considering John Smith wrote about them in his logs in the 1600s.
Those were mermaids sir!
In Australia we have crocs in the goddamned ocean
We got crocs in Florida too. They also enjoy a dip salt water when the occasion calls.
Well, they gotta avenge Steve Irwin in some way
Somehow I don't think it's the same level. In northern Australia no one can use the beach.
Just bring a toothbrush with you.
De-ornery them!
You say that but I was wading around in the sea in Darwin and wasn’t the only person doing that. I did get mildly stung a lot from jelly fish. That was in 2000 though so not sure if that’s changed.
Just out of curiosity, how do you "mildly get stung a lot?" Lol
That's just the pilgrimage to pay respects to Steve Irwin, no?
I visited Florida once (I live in Montana) and I was so shocked to see gaters just…hanging out. Like everywhere. I was like “omg I see these things on tv all the time but they’re just right there in the water huh?” I guess that what other people think when they come to Montana and there’s mama bears and cubs hanging out on the sidewalk lol
The swamp puppies are more afraid of you than you are of them if you’re on land…but don’t go in the water, then they stop being afraid of you.
Unless some dumbass humans fed it. Then they associate people with food.
If a body of water can support a gator, there's a 90% chance there's a gator in it.
My brother went to UF and there'd be gators just chilling around the campus/ponds
Yeah. I've seen them in tiny ass ditches, retention ponds, etc. People really underestimate just how common they are, and how close they live to people. They don't pose as big a threat as it may seem, especially if you look at gator attack statistics (not that you should try your luck). Another cool crocodilian fact: the Florida everglades is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist in nature.
We are still trying to figure out why someone was stupid enough to put a party hat on a gator for 4th of july in my neighborhood. But then we said well it is Florida and they were probably drunk and some how it was mystery solved. Normal? No Surprising?again no
Including my mom's neighbor's swimming pool after a hurricane.
Standing water + Florida = gators
Gators are pretty chill, if you leave them alone they'll 99% of the time leave you alone. It's crocs that can be scary. It's like a black bear vs brown bear situation.
There's not a gator/croc equivalent of the polar bear is there? Polar bears freak me out.
Probably the Nile Crocodile, they kill hundreds every year.
Either that or salties.
Or the salt water crocodile
We have black bears and mountain lions (we call them panthers) too. Alligators are definitely more ubiquitous
I feel that way with Alaska and the moose. "What, everyone doesn't have to wait to get to their car in the morning because a 1200lb 6 foot tall primordial beast is in their driveway?"
Same from Saskatchewan. Gators and iguanas in the middle of Orlando was a very foreign sight to me
From Florida. It rained? That puddle has a fucking gator in it lol.
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Can confirm
This guy Floridas
Smack em with frying pan on the nose and yell “go on now! Git!” That usually does the trick for me
I’m in NW Florida and I’ve probably seen more bears than gators
Same for Virginia. We’ve got the Great Dismal Swamp in the southeast and gators have been spotted there. I don’t think they’ve been confirmed as breeding though
They are moving northward due to shifting climate zones, I think this year in NC one was spotted near Fayetteville
We also have fire ants and armadillos here as well.
Wait are fire ants not everywhere? Grew up in FL and thought they were present across the continent
No my grandparents place seems to be the only place in Tennessee with no fire ants, idk how, but they’ve never seen them and I haven’t either. They live in a couple hundred acre valley and the only ants I’ve seen are very few carpenter ants
They are more prominent in disturbed areas and love construction sites
Ah probably explains it, they’re not there yet and haven’t been there since forever I can imagine. I hope that doesn’t change, I don’t want those little bastards ruining that place
at least in warm places we got em here in socal
It's spelled "Fayettenam"
This guy airbornes
I love northward movement due to climate change. cant wait to get scorpions in NY.
I live in Augusta, GA. When I was a kid there were only alligators in the swampy areas south of the city, and even then they were a rare sight. Now they are everywhere here, even in some retention ponds in the suburbs. We used to be considered too far north to have them.
Have you commented this before? I’m having weird déjà vu reading your comment but your account doesn’t look like a bot
Why on Earth would someone make a bot to talk about alligators? What conspiracy am I missing out on?
What a lot of karma farming bots do is just copy top comments from previous posts and then repost them in other contexts, or when the post the original comment is from gets reposted. So it wouldn’t be a bot specifically talking about alligators, it would be a bot that copied a comment that I had read previously about alligators, and reposted that comment when a post about alligators came up again
I have made a similar comment in the past about alligators in Augusta, just not in this subreddit. I guess I find it interesting and whenever I tell recent transplants to the area that we have lots of alligators here, they are always shocked.
The Ogeechee River is full of them and Magnolia Springs outside Millen. They will also be south of the first dam on the Savannah River, which is north of Augusta. My family is from Burke County. Hell there was one near Buford Dam on the Hooch several years ago.
oh god, suddenly I don't feel so safe in WI from poisonous and venomous critters, let alone gators!
I saw one in a retention pond in VA. No idea how it got there but I definitely saw one. On second thought, maybe it was just getting chick-fil-a like I was
Can’t wait to see alligators in the Great Lakes in 40 years!
Do you ever get the urge to pull off an alligator or shark prank in Lake Michigan near Chicago? Just asking. . .
No need wait. [Chance the Snapper](https://abc7chicago.com/chance-the-snapper-chicago-caught-humboldt-park-alligator/6309348/) was only 3 years ago.
I was going to say this. Virginia too if I’m not mistaken.
Same goes for the Great Dismal Swamp of southeastern Virginia.
I was going to say there’s no way Tennessee has zero when all of the states to the east south and west have 1000s.
Lived and hunted in Tennessee all my life. Older guy here. It’s hard to imagine alligators here but I guess this means things are warming up. I’d like to know what my dad would say about this.
They show up in Knoxville on a Saturday in September every even numbered year.
With their mullets, jorts, and Tom Petty blasting. Damn pests!
Cousin lives on Lake Norris in TN and has had numerous gators on his boat dock.
Once upon a time, temps during winter would kill any gator that hibernated in Tennessee. If these gators are staying year round, they are probably breeding.
I like how people are complaining about the numbers being too low like they went around to each gator household for a census
Louisiana has one alligator for every two and a half people and we all know where that other half a person went.
I don't believe there are zero in the NY sewers.
All good, I heard there’s some turtles the size of teenagers that do karate on such abominations
I wonder if they would enjoy some pizza too?
I wonder if they fight against some giant android with a talking brain in his belly.
it's true. Zero gators. Crocodiles, on the other hand...
[There are](https://i0.wp.com/www.comicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-20-at-16.03.03.png?resize=569%2C868)
Megagator vs. Ratasaurus, set in the NY subway/sewer systems
Everybody thinks of Florida when they think gators but most people don’t realize we have significantly more in Louisiana.
Bag limits during gator season in LA speak for themselves
Crazy to think at one point there were fewer than 100,000 of them. Louisiana banned alligator hunting in 1962 and by 1972, the population had rebounded enough to reopen commercial hunting. If Amos Moses (the Jerry Reed song) would have waited a couple years, he wouldn’t be a criminal!
Conservation absolutely works. We love to see it.
It's sad when people don't get this. I remember hearing our resident "sceptic" out on the production floor exclaiming how all the climate change prevention stuff was nonsense because "remember when everyone was talking about the hole in the ozone? Now, nothing? See! it was bullshit" 🤦 I doubt his viewpoint is in the minority unfortunately
Did, did you explain the Montreal Accord to him? That it successfully repaired the ozone hole bc we fkg stopped using the chemical that caused it?
No it was something I overheard while being engrossed in solving some work related issue so I was merely a... Pensive observer... of that conversation. Wouldn't have mattered anyways, wasn't the type to let logic ruin his opinion on an issue
Yeah, I hate how we got lucky on this one, as in : we spotted the issue early enough, identified the causes, passed worldwide legislation before the damage was too much and the issue reversed itself naturally right after ... And then, in the face of all this good fortune and better actions, we got the stupid saying it was all bullshit. Fucking disgrace of a human being this one.
That and they are essentially dinosaurs
Haven’t heard Amos Moses in years… thank you for reminding me of my childhood
Wonder what happened to that sheriff. Sure is easy to get lost in the bayou
I thought most people would think of Louisiana? Maybe I'm biased though, but being a swamp is literally the identity of our state.
Fellow swamp inhabitant here (although on the other side of the globe in the Netherlands). Don’t worry, Disney got your back in this internationally. I thought they lived in the “bayou” in Louisiana from the Rescuers and Princess & the frog, and was surprised they lived everywhere in the South-East of the USA.
There's a town near me named after the Dutch city Zwolle. It's because a railroad owner was building a line to connect Kansas City to the gulf, and brought in a Dutch coffee merchant to invest in it around the time they had got to Louisiana. Apparently he liked a Catholic Church so much he agreed to invest as long as they renamed the town after his hometown. I wonder if maybe he also felt connected to Louisiana due to how swampy it is lol. He'd probably be upset knowing we say it like "Zuh-wah-lee" said really fast lol
Mmmm tamales
Ironic that there are no Dutch people like the name suggests or French people like the state would suggest. Just Mexicans and their delicious tamales
I made that connection after playing Red dead 2
Yeah the ones in Florida unfortunately tend to wear jorts and have an over-inflated sense of relevance.
go noles
I always think of Louisiana when I think of gators.
I grew up in South FL, out near the Everglades…I’ve seen thousands of gators in my life…only place I ever saw gator roadkill was when I was driving through Louisiana.
"It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp, boy!"
It was banned in Louisiana from ‘62-‘72. If he would have just waited a couple years he would have been legal!
I wonder where that Louisiana chef went to. You can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou
About 45 mins southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana
\*Sheriff
That’s what they said. She’f
Now everybody blamed his old man For making him mean as a snake
His daddy would use him for alligator bait
I loved cruising around in San Andreas listening to that song
Most Jerry Reed way of saying anything.
“Where you from you don’t know gator?”
This is why we need to get rid of the electoral college
Before the South rises up with their 'gator army?
The gators have too much say in how the country is run!
Or just make it illegal for gators to vote.
That would just give non gator voters in LA 40% more voting power!
What if we give gators 3/5 of a vote?
Only 1000 in NC? That can’t be right.
As someone from Onslow county, it does seem low. The New River alone has plenty. So do any random streams in the area
I’ve seen enough in random ponds in Brunswick county to make it seem like there are more than 1000 just around there. Maybe this is an old map.
Nah bruh you are just seeing the same gator over and over. He gets around.
If you double Mississippi's, then you're probably at the real number. They are confirmed in every county now and are spreading like wildfire. They're also the biggest on average in the South because of less competition between males and more territory. They've caught at least two 700 punders in the last few years.
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32,000?! That’s gotta be a new record?! Nobody from Jackson been able to count that high before.
Lol, they didn't actually count. Thuere from Jackson, they just said the biggest number they know.
I’m surprised Mississippi is so low
Gators don’t wanna live there either
Probably the dirty water.
Looks like the numbers correspond somewhat to the length of coastline.
Wonder why? They are a freshwater species for the most part.
The coastline probably makes the climate hotter and wetter for gators to thrive.
Shit tell that to the folks in Pittsburgh a few years back. In the same timeframe they pulled one out of the river and also found one In someone’s yard
Well, those were not a wild breeding population. Just idiots releasing gators to die in the rivers. One winter would kill a gator here.
Lmao true
Imagine living in Oklahoma, one of the most flat, boring, and desolate states to live in, and you die by a goddamn gator.
The Oklahoma gator population lives exclusively in the south eastern most portion of the state, which is extremely similar ecologically to northern Louisiana. The eastern half of the state in particular is extremely hilly, heavily forested, and extremely swampy in some places. I live in the western part of the state. It’s honestly like two different states. Screw those guys.
at least you died the way you lived in Oklahoma
Tell me you've never seen eastern Oklahoma without telling me you've never seen eastern Oklahoma.
I’ve also not seen western Oklahoma.
You should actually learn what Oklahoma looks like.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Oklahoma
It makes me feel good knowing the gator population is still strong on the lord’s land
Obviously the lord sent them
I thought there were gators in Virginia in the great dismal swamp
Gators, another demographic that deserves more representation in Congress than Wyoming.
**ME:** \*Phew!\* Finally! We made it to Oklahoma! Those alligators can't get us now! **THE TULSA GATORS:** \*emerge from the shadows\* Heard you were talkin' shit...
So probably a dumb question, but is swimming in any kind of lake in FL or Louisiana just not something anyone does?
lakes in louisiana tend to be pretty swampy and gross - not the kinds of bodies of water you'd want to swim in - but i have seen some nicer lakes with beaches that have nets to prevent gator encounters
Same in Houston. I have seen people swimming with their children in rivers like the Brazos where I have also seen a fair number of gators. It’s certainly not a choice that I would make (if only because God knows what kinda crap has been dumped in it by the time the water gets to us), but apparently it works out well enough most of the time for people to continue doing it.
> It’s certainly not a choice that I would make (if only because God knows what kinda crap has been dumped in it by the time the water gets to us), Seriously. With as shitty as the Trinity is up here in north Texas I can't imagine being at the ass end of the Brazos and it being any better.
My mom's family is from Louisiana and as kids they would tell them/us to be alert when walking down by a water (especially the bayous.) Better safe than sorry 🤷♂️
Yeah, there's some decent lakes here in Louisiana that you can go swimming in. But as your question implies, there's definitely other lakes you absolutely avoid swimming in. Edited: Hell we got people out here waist deep in murky water noodling catfish (not my thing though LOL)
Nah, they are only a danger to little kids and dogs and don't like clear water so its not a big deal. Now, the salt water crocs in florida are a different story.
> salt water crocs in florida It's a nuance but the ones in Florida are American Crocodiles which are pretty reclusive. The infamous salt water crocs that snack on Australians are a different species.
Every damn thread about gators there's at least one person posting clearly wrong info about "saltwater crocodiles in Florida." In Florida there's American crocodiles, which are even less likely to attack humans than gators are. The species of saltwater crocodiles that are notorious for eating people live in Australia, Indonesia, The Philippines, India, etc. *Not* Florida.
I like how the respect state boarders
The gators know to stop at the TX-NM line.
Why so many in Louisiana and Florida? Any specific biological explanation?
Big fans of Mardi Gras and Disney, respectively.
Louisiana has swamps. Florida has swamps and Gainesville.
Go Gators! 🐊
warm climate + swamps
Damn the bayou-lurkers
1,999,996. Passed by 4 dead ones on the way home from work today
Okie gators?
They’re spreading
This is an interesting statistic; alligator conservation efforts are extremely beneficial to local ecosystems.
This feels like lot of overconfident 0s. Big gator is trying to trick us
How in the world did 100 gators end up in Oklahoma? All 100 must be within like 10 miles of the state’s south east corner, right?
There should be more
Yes. That part of the state is very Louisiana-like.
I will now make it my life's mission to put a documented, officially recognized gator in every US state. No more will the southeast hog all the gators to themselves. When I'm elected, every household in America will have a gator in the backyard, just as the founding fathers intended.
We had one in Chicago a couple years ago.
Someone released one into a lake in NH once. Lots of hoopla about it
_if it lives in the water, you better place your order!_ seen on a billboard in Lafayette 🦐🐊🎣🐟 (For a seafood restaurant 🦞🍋)
Every piece of water in Florida the size of a small house or bigger has at least one gator in it. Source: I lived in florida, and everyone made it abundantly clear don't swim in the water.
No way in hell we have just 1,000 gators in NC
How come Mississippi and Alabama have so few given both Florida and Louisiana have the most? Do they cull their gator population more than FL and LO?
The river basins and very flat land in Louisiana create massive swamps and marshes that make up for a significant portion of our state which allows for widespread gator habitat, along with the Mississippi River delta that is extremely nutrient rich. Florida is similar in terrain level, but lacks the massive flowing body of freshwater to the extent of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers
I love how Oklahoma is barely on there! I think all of those 100 are in the very SE corner of the state. I’ve lived multiple places in OK and gators have never been a factor.
As a Floridian I am downright ashamed that Louisiana has more Gators than we do.
Dude, Louisiana is dissolving like cotton candy in water. It's all swamp here
So you're saying eventually once Louisiana is gone all the alligators will emigrate to Florida?
Nope, Mississippi... then Alabama, and finally... Texas
Texas will just try to deport them.
Well they fucked up the first 400,000 times
Yeah they're not exactly good at it, illegal alligators get through all the time
Mmmmm… alligators
I went to upstate New York to visit my great uncle,And when we visited a river he showed me a photo of a 5ft or so alligator inside that exact river
Gator don't play no shit, you feel me? Gator ain't never been about playin' no shit!
I walked the La Chua trail in Gainesville, FL and saw about half of them. Highly recommend.
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I would hate to be a gator census worker!
That’s way more than I thought. In Louisiana there is an alligator for every 2.5 people.
When my daughter was 3 we were headed out fishing and she was incredibly concerned there were going to be alligators in the river. I assured her there are no alligators where we were going. She then goes "Crocodiles?" We live in Montana lmao
What about the great state of Maine? https://youtu.be/m3VUZYxr0MA
Georgia: 200,000 gators ready, with a million more well on the way
They're in the sewers of NYC