Cocaine bear, meet cannibal gator.
“That gator never took his eyes off me. ... I stood there like a tree hoping he didn’t think I was a threat. When he was done crushing his victim, it was folded in thirds. That gator knew what he was doing. ... He folded his victim like a lawn chair.”
It took the “bull alligator” just two minutes to reduce the 3-foot-long juvenile gator into something that could be easily chewed, she said. Alligators are known to be “opportunistic feeders,” which means the younger gator may have been dead when the adult alligator found it.However, cannibalism is also an option, with elder alligators choosing to eat the young. One study found “of young alligators fall victim to the cruel fate of cannibalism,” Live Science reports.
“Even the seemingly low rate of juvenile mortality attributed to cannibalism reported here may be an important factor in population regulation,” researchers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported in 2011. D’Angelo calls wildlife photography a post-retirement hobby. She shared several of her gator images on Facebook groups for“Amazing and scary. I didn’t know they ate other gators,”
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