Gator eating an Invasive Plecostomus Catfish

These obnoxious armored fish were introduced into our environment by people dumping their aquarium fish into canals. You can watch a heron try again and again to eat one. Plecostomus have lots of spines to puncture mouths, throats, necks.. you get the idea. Look up “Plecostomus catfish Florida.” Our wading birds often try to eat the invasive Plecostomus catfish that are in many of our canals (collapsing sides and sea walls,) aggravating manatees by attaching to them with their sucker mouths and wiping out local fish by vacuuming up their eggs as they feed. Gators, on the other hand, have no trouble crunching them up for food.

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The other end of an Alligator

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Juvenile Water Moccasin

Water Moccasins are aggressive snakes, they will run you down, and they are known to stand their ground. Much respect to this snake of the wetlands and swamps of Florida. Leave them alone! Don't kill them.

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Monsters in the Sunset..

Alligator at Sunset on the Myakka River.

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