Alligators captured at Disney doubles

[Pixieish]

Pretty smart on the part on the turkeys they know no one is going to shoot them in the middle of the street or in a neighborhood with houses close by.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Yes, because this entire discussion is about WDW. Society in general has lost the concept of personal responsibility and this includes at WDW.

If someone is visiting WDW they most certainly should be preparing for a trip to Florida because that's where WDW is located. It is their responsibility to educate themselves about the place their visiting. It is WDW's responsibility to warn against and prevent hazards. That's why they have long worked to remove gators from property and why they have signs posted saying the beaches are closed and not to enter. If people ignore these warnings and enter anyway that's on them.

What will be OFF them is a number of formally handy appendages such as hands, arms, legs and perhaps other rather important things.

 

[Goofyernmost]

In my lifetime in Florida I can say that I have seen 1000 times more alligators than deer but you can only hunt alligators
if you win a lottery and pay $300 per permit fee with a limit of 2. If I hunt deer I just need a license and a permit and I can take 2 per day in season. I know that gators were endangered back in the 60's in Florida but there is an estimated 1.4 million gators in Florida and 700K deer. I think it is time they look at new hunting laws for gators. I will leave this pic here. This is Myakka State Park. About a 20 min drive from my house.

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What I want to know is what are they doing in our swamps? Go back where you came from oh, ye nasty gators. You are not welcome here.

 

[Goofyernmost]

They should put local-caught 'gator on the menu.

They do in New Orleans. Gator Jambalaya, Tastes like chicken!

 

[LAKid53]

Think turkeys are dumb...

If geese weren't federally protected, my home town would be feasting on oie de la rue just about every day...

While migratory birds have navigational skills our GPS enabled devices would envy, they have brains not much larger than a walnut. But that doesn't mean they cannot learn and adapt to urban environments and the presence of humans. And they don't invest energy in cognitive activity, they invest it in activity designed to feed with little extraneous expenditures of energy. The brain uses more energy to function than other parts of the body. Geese don’t invest in brain power to solve most of their problems. They invest in brawn, which enables lengthy migrations, and prefer a steady diet of abundant and predictable grass. So, perhaps geese and turkeys aren't that dumb after all.

 

[LAKid53]

What I want to know is what are they doing in our swamps? Go back where you came from oh, ye nasty gators. You are not welcome here.

But swamps are their natural habitat....

 

[LAKid53]

They do in New Orleans. Gator Jambalaya, Tastes like chicken!

I've eaten fried gator tail, at a UF football game, no less. Tastes like chicken...

 

[John park hopper]

What I want to know is what are they doing in our swamps? Go back where you came from oh, ye nasty gators. You are not welcome here.

Yea, go back to where you came from you yankee gators back to the NYC sewer system

 

[JoeCamel]

They should put local-caught 'gator on the menu.

Nah, would put the farmers out of business. Ride Living With the Land for details.

 

[Pixieish]

Nah, would put the farmers out of business. Ride Living With the Land for details.

Some of the captured alligators do end up used as food/textiles.

EDIT: Not necessarily the ones from Disney, but ones captured around the state per the nuisance laws.

 

[Goofyernmost]

But swamps are their natural habitat....

I'd have thought that was pretty obvious. Here's your sign.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Yea, go back to where you came from you yankee gators back to the NYC sewer system

Even Gators need a place to retire too. Most of the year it's pretty chilly in NYC.

 

[John park hopper]

Even Gators need a place to retire too. Most of the year it's pretty chilly in NYC.

Maybe alittle chilly in the winter but they would have plenty of sewer rats to eat.

 

[Nemo14]

Maybe alittle chilly in the winter but they would have plenty of sewer rats to eat.

Do they taste like chicken too?

 

[Goofyernmost]

Maybe alittle chilly in the winter but they would have plenty of sewer rats to eat.

Makes you wonder why they complain about the gators in NYC. They are providing a very valuable service.

 

[LAKid53]

Y'all do know that gators in NYC sewers are an urban myth.....

 

[John park hopper]

Y'all do know that gators in NYC sewers are an urban myth.....

You do know there have been several movies made about gators in the NYC sewer system.They got in there back in the late 50's and early 60's when it was legal to buy baby gators in FL and people released them. I can remember begging my dad for one on one of our vacations from NY to visit grandma in FL. He said NO!! the sewers had enough all ready ---Just having a little fun with you.Yes it's an urban myth

 

[LAKid53]

You do know there have been several movies made about gators in the NYC sewer system.They got in there back in the late 50's and early 60's when it was legal to buy baby gators in FL and people released them. I can remember begging my dad for one on one of our vacations from NY to visit grandma in FL. He said NO!! the sewers had enough all ready ---Just having a little fun with you.Yes it's an urban myth

I figured as much....

Beside, no baby gator would survive the trip from the toilet to the sewers. And I'm sure those sewer rats would take care of it once it got there.

 

[LAKid53]

That's if they are even able to retire. By age 50, most alligators haven't even started to invest properly in crocs & ponds.

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[mmnw]

How safe is it to walk from the water transportation to your hotel late at night? Or walk on a path from Magic Kingdom to your hotel late at night? Or, how safe is it for those staying at the camp sites?