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Alligator Attack - Defense Fundamentals
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Don't trust any gator over about 5 feet. If a gator is in the water, let them have it and dive elsewhere. "That gator won't bother you," is a myth. Number one rule - NEVER feed a gator.
vladimir:Now that you've whetted our appetites I think you have to post them.
Not on Scubaboard. They are of a very large (~30ft) croc being killled and the 12 year old boy he had ate being removed from its stomach.
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I'll pass on the photos. But the news is not all bad:
Scientists in the United States have isolated a powerful agent in crocodile blood which could help conquer human infections immune to standard antibiotics. The discovery was made thanks to the curiosity of a BBC science producer filming a documentary on salt-water crocodiles in Australia, BBC Director-General Greg Dyke revealed on Thursday.
In tests, this substance kills strains of virulent bacteria that are resistant to all standard antibiotics. "She discussed this with a young croc expert who agreed that it would be interesting to try to find out why. After many adventures, they got their blood samples and last week a leading research institute isolated from these samples what I'm told is a novel anti-microbial peptide."
Scientists in the United States have isolated a powerful agent in crocodile blood which could help conquer human infections immune to standard antibiotics. The discovery was made thanks to the curiosity of a BBC science producer filming a documentary on salt-water crocodiles in Australia, BBC Director-General Greg Dyke revealed on Thursday.
In tests, this substance kills strains of virulent bacteria that are resistant to all standard antibiotics. "She discussed this with a young croc expert who agreed that it would be interesting to try to find out why. After many adventures, they got their blood samples and last week a leading research institute isolated from these samples what I'm told is a novel anti-microbial peptide."
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From the species we haven't killed off yet...OHGoDive:
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What if that species killed off a certain plant that held the cure?
Who knows how much damage those dodo birds could've done if we hadn't stopped them....
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oh, well, at least you were not filming the attack.
yea, that sounds gross.
Alligators pluck toddlers off yards in the swamps in Florida, I hear.
My grandmother lived in Punta Gorda and there were dead alligators on the road.
Toddlers, dogs, and earlier this year an older woman who was watering her lawn.
I've never seen a dead alligator on the road, though.
Back in the late 70s we shot a 14' alligator that was chasing my sister on her horse. It came out of a pond next to our barn. The pond couldn't have been 25' across and a couple of feet deep. My brother and I used to camp by it all the time.
I've never seen a dead alligator on the road, though.
Back in the late 70s we shot a 14' alligator that was chasing my sister on her horse. It came out of a pond next to our barn. The pond couldn't have been 25' across and a couple of feet deep. My brother and I used to camp by it all the time.
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