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Although Louisiana, like Florida, has approximately 1.5 million alligators, this was Louisiana's only known fatal alligator attack. [17] May 1, 2020: Cynthia Covert, 58, female: South Carolina — The victim was pulled under and drowned by an alligator in a pond behind a home near Salt Cedar Lane, Kiawah Island. [18] [19]
An American alligator found in a cold New York creek in November 2024. Mark Perpetua, his new owner, said on Nov. 19, 2024 that he may be 4 to 6 years old, but he could be older.
On Friday, NYPD officers reportedly found 13 exotic animals-- including a tarantula, two alligators, two bearded dragons, five pythons and a boa constrictor -- living inside fish tanks in an ...
When an alligator began squatting at the USCG station in Venice, Louisiana, the guardsmen decided to make it a member of the team, according to a April 4 Facebook post. “Meet our station’s ...
The largest reported individual size was a male killed in 1890 by Edward McIlhenny [28] on Marsh Island, Louisiana, and reportedly measured at 5.84 m (19 ft 2 in) in length, but no voucher specimen was available, since the American alligator was left on a muddy bank after having been measured due to having been too massive to relocate. [26]
Alligators like swamps, rivers, lakes or wherever they can have an adequate habitat. Louisiana has several varieties of venomous snakes. The eastern coral snake, Texas coral snake, eastern copperhead, cottonmouth, western pygmy rattlesnake, and the eastern diamondback rattlesnake and canebrake rattlesnake can all be found in Louisiana.
green sea turtle: Cheloniidae: Highest Lepidochelys kempii: Atlantic ridley sea turtle: Cheloniidae: Highest/ U.S. Fish and Wildlife lists as endangered Chelydra serpentina: common snapping turtle: Chelydridae: Lowest Macrochelys temminckii: alligator snapping turtle: Chelydridae: Wheeler Wildlife Refuge lists as endangered Dermochelys coriacea ...
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