The Wild Life Conservation Society - The First Alligator Episode

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i have to call out, you have come for the security service at sight. Like in order to act a siht, you have to be badged and go through iait hour training. They do tell me there are heavy amounts of contaminations in the water. Be careful, but that's a bad hit. Otherwise, likem going in this water, i have to get wet to set the traps. And i mean, i think as long as i'm not having too long a term of exposure, i will be ok. I think if it was like me going now every single day for three years, then i'd be a little bit more concerned. But since it's

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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