Cigar Hording

[Rocket Scientologist]

I am gentle as a mamma alligator with my sticks.

I'm no expert, but how gentle can momma alligators be? I feel like there are other mommas in the animal kingdom that might provide a better analogy.

[cheaphumidors]

I'm no expert, but how gentle can momma alligators be? I feel like there are other mommas in the animal kingdom that might provide a better analogy.

Well, I am an "expert" (not really)on the topic (my life long dream was to be a herpetologist and therefor I spend a lot of time reading journal articles on alligators) and mamma alligators are exceptionally gentle with their babies. In fact, alligators spend the first 2 years of their lives under their mom's protection. When they hatch, she comes and digs them out of their nest and gently carries them to the water with a level of grace and dexterity that is shocking given their immense size and power.

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[TreySC]

Well, I am an "expert" (not really)on the topic (my life long dream was to be a herpetologist and therefor I spend a lot of time reading journal articles on alligators) and mamma alligators are exceptionally gentle with their babies. In fact, alligators spend the first 2 years of their lives under their mom's protection. When they hatch, she comes and digs them out of their nest and gently carries them to the water with a level of grace and dexterity that is shocking given their immense size and power.

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I did lake management for a while when I lived in Sarasota. Had plenty of run ins with gators but never saw in babies with their mammas. Which is probably a good thing based on how protective they are.

[cheaphumidors]

I did lake management for a while when I lived in Sarasota. Had plenty of run ins with gators but never saw in babies with their mammas. Which is probably a good thing based on how protective they are.

Wow! What a fun job!
I run into quite a few babies when I kayak, I even found a newly hatched nest, cutest thing ever!

[TreySC]

Wow! What a fun job!
I run into quite a few babies when I kayak, I even found a newly hatched nest, cutest thing ever!

It was fun for the most part. The gators usually got out of the way, but still a little scary when you don't see them right away.

[cheaphumidors]

It was fun for the most part. The gators usually got out of the way, but still a little scary when you don't see them right away.

"Usually" is the key word. A couple of months ago I was kayaking in the Hillsborough river and had to lay back in my kayak to get under a log. My head was back so I couldn't see where I was going, all of a sudden I feel myself bump into, what I assumed was another log, and then the front of my kayak dip down quite a bit. I looked up to find a +/- 8 foot gator scrambling over the top of my kayak, apparently I hit the poor thing as he was sunning himself. I felt so bad!

[TreySC]

"Usually" is the key word. A couple of months ago I was kayaking in the Hillsborough river and had to lay back in my kayak to get under a log. My head was back so I couldn't see where I was going, all of a sudden I feel myself bump into, what I assumed was another log, and then the front of my kayak dip down quite a bit. I looked up to find a +/- 8 foot gator scrambling over the top of my kayak, apparently I hit the poor thing as he was sunning himself. I felt so bad!

That's pants changer right there LOL. At least out in the rivers like that you shouldn't run into to many that have been fed and get aggressive.

[Rocket Scientologist]

Well, I am an "expert" (not really)on the topic (my life long dream was to be a herpetologist and therefor I spend a lot of time reading journal articles on alligators) and mamma alligators are exceptionally gentle with their babies. In fact, alligators spend the first 2 years of their lives under their mom's protection. When they hatch, she comes and digs them out of their nest and gently carries them to the water with a level of grace and dexterity that is shocking given their immense size and power.

I stand corrected. The more you know...*music chimes*

[Billb1960]

I'm no expert, but how gentle can momma alligators be? I feel like there are other mommas in the animal kingdom that might provide a better analogy.

[cheaphumidors]

Oh is that not the most precious thing you've ever seen?!