Alligators

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I'm basically my own swamp person everbut when alligators are incorrectly portrayed, it definitely is triggering. Now that i'm ke aware of it, i haven't really seen a media where an alligator is being used in place of a crocodile. Alligators are a lot gentler than crocodiles, so i don't really blame them for doing that. However, hurricanes have seemed to be affecting alligator movement pattern,. Are they going more inland? Yes. These humans are just out of the these animals are not going to be like iman to go sniff out and hunt a human that's a hundred feet away from me. ecause that's just not how it works.

Alligators, crocodiles and … a shut-down nuclear weapons plant? The excitement never ends when you’re Laura Kojima, an Alligator Ecotoxicologist. A longtime reptile cheerleader, Laura has passion to match some truly bananas stories about field work, tail smacks, gator jaws, mercury levels, swamp boats, and crocodilian evolution, overbites, and locomotion. Her incredible work keeps people -- and the gators -- safer in toxic waters and she recalls her favorite alligator bite and the one animal that sent her to the hospital. Also discussed: jorts & gator crotches.

[Audio note: the connection was a little spotty so please forgive occasional static!]

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