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This photo keeps resurfacing and several of our staff members just got it emailed to them again. So, in our unending crusade to dispel as many reptile myths as we can we will have a go at this one.
Huge gator, or forced perspective?
Here is the current ridiculous story attached to this photo:
“This alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg, Alabama, near a house! Neighbors had been telling the Rogers that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations. Alabama Parks and Wildlife game wardens were forced to shoot the beast. Joe G., 6′5′ tall, a game warden, walks past the 28 foot, 1 inch alligator he shot and killed in their back yard.”
First of all let’s start with the “6 foot 5 inch” game warden. Really? Six foot five inches? Give me a break. (more…)