Watch This Angry Alligator Invade a Family’s Porch and Refuse to … – AZ Animals

As an alligator control officer, you can expect to have to deal with some challenging situations. You can get called out to remove alligators from all sorts of situations but this one was particularly difficult. It was a large gator on a front porch who was aggressive and did not want to co-operate in any way. In the clip below, we get to see a glimpse of why these animals have to be controlled to maintain public safety.

These are large members of the Crocodilia order and can grow up to 15 feet in length. Some can weigh over 800 pounds. An animal of that size needs a fair amount of food but can go for a week without eating when they have consumed a large meal.

These guys are carnivores and have to catch and kill other animals to stay alive. To help them achieve this, they have integumentary sense organs to detect movement in the water, strength and a powerful bite. Its recorded at 2,980 psi which is more than that of a jaguar and a polar bear!

Using these attributes, they hunt primarily in water by lurking and then lunging at fish, mollusks, birds, small mammals and reptiles. You see the alligator here rolling as it is being restrained. The death roll is a tactic that they use to overcome their prey.

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The footage was captured in Florida which has a large gator population it reaches around 1.3 million. People who are concerned about alligators can call the local Nuisance Alligator Hotline. Individuals over four feet in length are removed by contracted nuisance alligator trappers.

Having found its way into a human settlement, this gator now presents a risk to human safety. Its size and aggression confirm this. Therefore, it needs to be removed and destroyed. It is never pleasant to learn that a magnificent creature will be killed but there are good reasons for doing so. The alligator population on Florida is stable and healthy and destroying nuisance alligators does not significantly impact the numbers.

Whilst relocation may seem like a kinder option, it has drawbacks. The main one is that released gators keep coming back to the place where they were captured! By doing this they cause more risks to humans and are often harder to capture the second time. Also, the authorities do not know where this gator came from. So, they will be releasing it in a location where there is already a community of gators with established social structures. Fights would break out resulting in even more deaths. Destroying this gator humanely is therefore the best option.

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