GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — Alongside this Florida nature path, it is a gator-eat-gator world.
Video exhibits a big alligator, estimated to be upwards of 10 ft lengthy, with a a lot smaller juvenile alligator trapped in its jaws.
The reptiles are a assured sight alongside La Chua Path in Gainesville, with dozens of the scaly creatures sunning themselves alongside the banks of canals and even on the path itself.
Within the video, the bigger gator violently shakes the limp physique of potential lunch as gasping hikers look on.
“Alligator grabbed a small one,” Daybreak Bolt, who filmed the encounter, stated. “I’m from Grand Rapids visiting, and we noticed 100 gators. Big ones. Guess they’re celebrating their victory!!”
Alligators are sometimes spotted snacking on their own kind out within the wild. It could appear grisly, however wildlife officers say it is simply part of nature.
In line with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, cannibalism is a prime mortality issue for gators, adopted by intraspecific preventing and looking by people. Grownup alligators could also be juvenile gators’ “most important predator,” FWC wrote.
