Paddleboarding in Florida: Facing Alligators Safely

Robert Rausch (@robert_kelley)’s video of snapping turtle

Unexpected Encounters in Florida: Feeding Alligators

All hail Coconut the albino gator queen😳🐊 Today is spa day and that means washing and scrubbing to keep her looking clean and healthy🙌 As an albino American alligator she lacks melanin which gives her that bright white coloration and pink eyes, but it also makes her more sensitive to sunlight so proper care is extra important👀 Gators spend a lot of time in the water and their skin is covered in tough armored scutes called osteoderms that act like built in body armor🤯 They also have a powerf

~~~Our rescue gators are wild caught nuisance gators that would’ve otherwise been destroyed. The state of Florida destroys 8,000 “nuisance” gators annually, but we don’t have a nuisance gators problem but rather a nuisance HUMAN problem. 1k people a day move to FL, unsustainably developing the land, and a lot of ignorant people making a nuisance out of themselves. NEVER feed a wild gator, never have kids or pets near the water, and never swim in gator habitat! And of course, never attempt anythi