The BIGGEST Turtle You've EVER seen!

  

published on Oct 2, 2014

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Coyote
Peterson comes across turtles where ever he goes, but nothing can
prepare him for a once in a life time encounter with North America's
largest swamp monster, the Alligator Snapping Turtle. If you think
you've seen a big turtle...wait till you get a look at this beast!



The
Alligator Snapping Turtle is the largest fresh water turtle in the
United States and is a species uncommonly seen as far south as the
Everglades. Coyote and the team were lucky enough to encounter one of
these giants on a private wildlife preserve where these turtles are
being protected in what was once their native environment.



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Shrine

 
 Mary in a Roman Catholic Church in Chicago

Holy Vapors
https://flowofstardust64.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/holy-vapors …

  

SUNNIN' ON CROC OF THE BAY

Hundreds of alligators gather at Florida watering hole for sunbathing session

The tightly packed group of alligators is so large the predators can even be seen on Google Earth satellite images

By Olivia Loveridge-Greene

5th March 2017 

TWO hundred alligators were snapped sunbathing at a Florida watering hole by Brit wildlife snapper Lee Dalton.

Lee, 38, of Ardingly, West Sussex said of the scene at Myakka River State Park: “It was intimidating but incredible. I felt privileged.”

 

A group of two hundred alligators were snapped at a Florida watering hole

 

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The predators gathered together for a sunbathing session

 

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The sinkhole’s unique ecosystem makes for a great habitat for the alligator’s prey

Predators including bald eagles and vultures often gather alongside the alligators as the sinkhole’s unique ecosystem makes for a great habitat for fish.
The reptiles are often only seen individually or in small clusters of three or four.
The large gathering at the US sinkhole is said to be so large Google Earth can even pick them up.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3016475/hundreds-of-alligators-gather-at-florida-watering-hole-for-sunbathing-session/

Alligator Farm in the 1920s.

.@jenkincheloe @4gottenflapper Ladies posing with friends at the Los Angeles Alligator Farm in the 1920s. What could go wrong?

Biggest Crocodile Ever Caught

 

Link: https://youtu.be/eoLS0ZrdnCc

Hunter stalks 'world record' Northern Territory saltwater crocodile

 

Link: https://youtu.be/Tdj8Wakpeng

Meet Pearl - a rare albino alligator

CHECK
OUT this rare albino alligator who certainly wouldn’t blend into her
surroundings unless there was a thick blanket of snow.

The
stunning pictures and video show the snow-white alligator creep out of
the water and try to snatch a hat after someone teases her by hitting
her on the nose with it.

The seven and a half-foot-long,
105-pound alligator is no slouch and her pink eyes make it hard to see
where she is looking. The incredible images and footage show Pearl, the
resident albino alligator at Gatorland in Orlando.

For the full story visit www.mediadrumworld.com.

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Rare albino alligator

Pearl

Pearl, a 10-year-old, 105-pound albino gator, has quickly become the star of Florida park Gatorland for her unpigmented skin and startling pinkish-white eyes.

Pearl and the park's other albino gator, Bouya Blan, wouldn't stand much of a chance out in the wild because they can't camouflage with their surroundings. Instead, they're kept in custom shaded housing to protect them from the sun, the Telegraph reports.
And they sure are a hit with parkgoers.
Just to clarify one more time: this is a real alligator. Not fake.

 

SEE ALSO: NBD, just a massive alligator out for a stroll 

Giant Alligator Spotted at Florida Nature Preserve

The massive reptile was spotted and caught on video at the Polk Nature Discovery Center in Lakeland, Florida.

Who says Dinosaurs are extinct?”

Giant gator caught strolling through Polk nature center

A giant alligator was caught on camera during a morning stroll at a nature center in Polk County.

The Lakeland Police Department shared the video, taken by Kim Joiner, on
their Facebook page saying, "Who says Dinosaurs are extinct?"

The big daddy gator was strolling through the Circle B Bar Reserve, an area of of protected lands in Polk County.

Alligators are not by any means uncommon in the American South, particularly in Florida, where there about a million of the modern dinosaurs live. Male alligators can grow very large, reaching up to 15 feet and weighing up to 1,000 pounds. Joiner told Florida television station WKMG she believed the one she spotted to be 12 feet long.
 

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Alligator Purse War

Birkin Bite 

That had to be an expensive shot! Model and actress Ana Mulvoy-Ten was brave enough to go head-to-head in a biting tug-o-war contest with an alligator over a Hermes Birkin bag.
Alligator Purse

Link: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/sneak-peek-tyler-shield-newest-photo-book-provocateur-gallery-1.2907141?pmSlide=1.2907130

Piggy Backing Creatures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

crocs

Green Magpie

 

Green Magpie #1
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Hunters are killing huge gators

Energy and Environment

Alabama hunters are killing huge gators off the Gulf Coast. Is that a good thing?

By Darryl Fears August 25, 2015

 

Scott Evans (left), Jeff Gregg (center), and Justin Gregg (right) after their big catch on Lake Eufaula in Alabama on Aug. 14, 2015. Jeff Gregg said that catching the 920-pound, 13’6″-long alligator was a dream. (Family photo)

He was a whopper.

It took six men to pull a 13-foot, 9-inch alligator from Lake Eufaula in Alabama. The animal weighed in at 920 pounds at a local lumber yard in mid-August, but its girth is only now raising eyebrows and drawing gasps; it was weighed last week but started to draw national attention Tuesday.

The giant male gator is one of several monsters that were hauled out of waters during regulated hunts in Alabama, Texas and Florida in recent years, and some biologists question whether that’s a good thing. Big dominant males manage the habitat where they reside, keeping smaller, more aggressive males away.

“You move one animal and four or five or six smaller gators come in and fight for territory,” said Kent Vliet, an alligator biologist at the University of Florida. “It is a bit destabilizing in that sense.”
Vliet said alligator hunters should be encouraged to snag younger males to manage populations and leave the behemoths alone.

“In my mind, because so few alligators that hatch reach adult size, and even fewer reach full bull status, I think of those animals as being very valuable,” said Vliet, coordinator of the university’s laboratory in the biology department. “A lot of ecological resources have gone into making that animal. To me that’s sort of a waste.”
 

Humans don’t hunt that way.

[New study shows just what vicious predators humans really are]

They want the big game, the big trophy, a place in the record books. Scott Evans, of Center Point, and his friends, brothers Jeff and Justin Gregg, achieved that in some regard, capturing the biggest gator ever in that particular lake.

But as gators go, this beast was no state or national record. The largest alligator ever caught in the wild was a 15-foot, 9-inch giant wrangled last year in a tributary to the Alabama River.
 

 

More than likely, the world record 1,011-pound male would have dominated the more recent catch in Lake Eufaula. He probably wouldn’t have allowed him in his territory, and in the unlikely event that he did, he definitely wouldn’t have allowed him to approach females during the April to May breeding season, Vliet said.

An alligator is seen in the water as Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell visits the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in the Everglades. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The second largest catch, a 14-foot, 8-inch gator roped and drowned by Thomas Bass of Trinity, Tex., held the record until Mandy Stokes and a group of helpers made news with their catch last year. Bass caught his gator eight years ago, but wasn’t entered into the record kept by Safari Club International until last year.

Robert “Tres” Ammerman, a licensed practical nurse from Apopka, caught a skinny 14-foot, 3-inch male that weighed 654 pounds, in Lake Washington in 2010. It was the longest documented gator caught in Florida, according to the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Florida is renowned for alligators, which serve as the mascot for the state’s largest university, but the animals range the entire length of the Gulf Coast. They are also found in the Carolinas.

The American alligator is classified as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a listing that provides federal protection, But state approved management and control efforts are allowed under the designation.

Louisiana and Florida have the largest habitats, but the populations are rapidly growing in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, Vliet said. With smaller habitats in the latter three states, population management programs were slower to start. 

 
[Frog, toad and amphibian populations are plummeting]
 

“Because they delayed the annual harvest for so long, they’ve had some very big animals,” Vliet said.
Removing them makes headlines, but the news is not always good, especially when no human has been harmed. “These are unusual animals. They have survived a long time. They tend to be wary animals. They may be older animals. It is likely that they do dominate an area, subordinate smaller males, mate with multiple females,” Vliet said.

 
“In a lot of ways they control the alligator population in that area. There’s no doubt in my mind that when you move an animal of this size, it has an impact on the population.”


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Global warming worsened the California drought, scientists say
Bad parenting? Baby zebra finch look for better role models
Drought: The big fish story no one is talking about
This invasive giant snail is spreading in Florida

Darryl Fears has worked at The Washington Post for more than a decade, mostly as a reporter on the National staff. He currently covers the environment, focusing on the Chesapeake Bay and issues affecting wildlife.




 Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/08/25/hunters-are-killing-huge-gators-on-the-gulf-coast-is-that-a-good-thing/

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