American Crocodiles of the Everglades

Florida is the only place in the world with both alligators and crocodiles living in the wild. I traveled to the Everglades National Park to document this small, elusive population of crocs.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• EVERGLADES
• NATIONAL
• PARK
• AMERICAN
• CROCODILES
• CROCS
• ALLIGATORS
• FLORIDA
• LoneTraveller

[lonetraveller]

Sorry JeftinFilm, the park ranger is dead wrong. Maybe you and the ranger should read his own website, which says: "Crocodiles do not live in Texas. (It's too cold.) The nearest crocodile is the American crocodile in far south Florida and he's almost extinct."

[rUNTRAIN1]

there are thousands in jamaica. In some parts of famaica they are asking the government to kill some as when it rains there are many in their backyard.but they are still on the endangered list.Jamaica is lucky there has only been 1 croc attack in the last 10 years and it was not fatal.

[Cjohnsonmyer014]

Protect The Crocodiles, Protect the American Alligators, let them live in In there Habitats, dont Let Move them because there close to people.

Lets live among them, we will respect them.

Long live the Crocs.

[PrunVeIes]

do crocodiles and alligators fight

[Inquisitor53]

@superwhiz88 I was born & raised here in FL. Got kinfolk living in the western 'Glades. It's real nice during the winter; best time to go do some python killin'. If one knows what they're doing they can live out there, having a feast of fruits, veggies, tubers, meat & fish. At times I'll spend a whole month out there & love every minute of it!

[Inquisitor53]

@Inquisitor53 Two bulls in his reply: one is a gator, the other a male bovine. I've seen a 17ft bull gator take down a 600 pound boar drinking at the edge of a creek & I was about 60 ft. from the action. It happened so fast neither the boar or I had time to react! Gators are, without a doubt, the masters of ambush.

[Inquisitor53]

@sirhcskoorb No doubt! As a volunteer at my local state park here in central FL the park has me train the internship program college students. The 1st thing I tell them is toss the book learnin' out the window, they're about to get a 'real world' education. I've had a few quit the program the 1st time they see the resident 17ft. bull gator while we're in the river pulling up hydrilla. What a shame, spending all that money not only to the school but the park as well, just to get in the program.

[NileCrocodilePoet]

I am so thrilled to know that crocodiles live in the glade sas I am "Nile Crocodile, the Reading Reptile, a children's poet and Florida gator! I have just read the book Swamplife (2011) by Lara A. Ogden which prompted my interest in the Everglades. Keep up the nature video going-get a panther on film -

[MrMynameiscat]

@sirhcskoorb jesus that's huge, where was that and how big was the gator? I mean to drag 3000 lbs+ of muscle you need to be a pretty darn big gator. When I went on a safari excursion in Kenya, I did see a nile croc almost get a full grown bull cape buffalo, but it was just too big, and that croc looked atleast 15-18 feet. How big was this gator? Gators tend to be bulkier to then crocs so that's another reason. Thanks

[sirhcskoorb]

@MrMynameiscat I mean a large male cow with mature horns.

My guess is it was around 3,000-3,500lbs and put up one hell of a fight but only for a short time because the gator was able to pull it's head under water immediately.

Although it was never able to roll the bull it apparently didn't need to.

[Inquisitor53]

@MrMynameiscat About 18ft. in isolated pockets of Green Swamp, the Hillsborough & other river basins. But here's some really good news! A 9 ft. american crocodile was photographed in a yard on the St. Pete side of Tampa Bay just south of Gandy Bridge. The Tampa Bay area was their northernmost range until the early 1950's. The story is in today's TampaTribune on with picture of it. I haven't checked TBO.com but the story should be there. Hopefully the story will be here on Youtube as well.

[MrMynameiscat]

@Inquisitor53 pretty good logic there. What's the biggest gator you've ever spotted? I've seen a 14-17 footer before.