I see. Special gators!
They were my buddies. I fed them loaves of bread on that trip. You ball up the bread and huck it at 'em like a baseball. They don't mind and they like the bread.
When I saw a gator sneak up behind and eat a duck when I was visiting a lake near Gainesville Florida then noticed another on the land not too far away from us, I got the fuck out of there. And on the way back to the car I heard a big cat roar or growl or whatever you call it, I didn't see it, so I don't know what the fuck it was but it did not sound friendly.
You're fine on the ground. They can only sprint for like 30' and their sprint isn't faster than you can run. You just gotta pay attention. They also don't usually attack when they're out of water and don't normally bite humans. Gators biting humans is a rare event.
I'm pretty fond of gators. I know a bit about 'em.
They have panthers in Florida, though they're rarely sighted. They're also pretty harmless to a full grown human.
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