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Animals News tagged with alligators

Alabama Gator Hunters Bag a Big-Un on Opening Night! Video!
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, hunting, alligators, killing, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 108 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Matt Thornton of Mobile, Ala., and five hunting partners bag a 13-foot, 5-inch, 701-pound alligator to claim the Alabama state record on the first night of gator season on the Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
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Alligator Hunt Begins With Protests From Animal Rights Group-Video
Animals  (tags: protestors, animalwelfare, hunters, alligators, wildanimals, wildlife )

Raffi
- 112 days ago - sun-sentinel.com
"Gator meat tastes like chicken," and "Going to get a few of them right now" are some of the jeers tossed at a handful of alligator-hunt protesters holding signs that read: "If you respect them, protect them" and "Ban gator hunt."
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Recession Has Helped Alligators Keep Their Skins
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, alligators, recession, skins, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 113 days ago - app.com
As conspicuous consumption loses some of its cachet during the recession, the swamp's most conspicuous consumers have less to fear from humans.
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Popular Gator Killed By Poachers in Texas
Animals  (tags: animals, alligators, killed, poachers, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 125 days ago - planetsave.com
A 13-foot, 600-pound alligator was killed in a state-managed coastal preserve just north of the Armand Bayou Nature Center (ABNC) in Pasadena, Texas. The alligator, estimated to be 50-years-old, was a popular tourist attraction at the Center and
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Florida Woman Rescues Good Ol' Boys From Gators
Animals  (tags: alligators, Florida, woman, trapper, captured, wildlife )

Raffi
- 149 days ago - sfgate.com
The 8-foot alligator opens its jaws wide and hisses in the dark at Julie Harter, who takes a few steps closer and dangles a lasso just like the kind rodeo cowboys use. Cornered against a chain-link fence in a suburban garbage truck parking lot
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Save Alligator Bayou ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, alligators, protection, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, wildlife )

Cher
- 172 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
I call on Iberville Parish President Mitch Ourso and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to close the floodgate at Alligator Bayou and allow the water to reach 4-foot levels to reverse the ecological disaster that is now underway.
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Open the Door and Make It Snappy! Woman's Shock as 11-Ft Alligator Turns Up on Her Doorstep in Florida
Animals  (tags: animals, alligators, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 221 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Plagued by uninvited guests? Try throwing out a welcome mat like this. The 11-ft alligator was spotted lying very still on a suburban doorstep in Florida, doing its best to blend in with the garden decor.
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Alligator Wrestling - Cruelty or Tradition? Video!
Animals  (tags: alligators, wrestling, animals, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 262 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Some young people are taking up the tradition of alligator wrestling, in spite of protests by animal rights activists that it is cruel and unnecessary.
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Snorkeller Risks Life to Swim With Alligators
Animals  (tags: florida, Miami's Jungle Island Zoo, wildlife, wild animals, alligators, swimming with, humans, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 319 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Alligators have the power to crush a man to death between their razor-sharp teeth, but this snorkeller is still brave enough to get up close and personal with them. Sean Manning, a zoo worker, swims fearlessly beside the 9ft long creatures without anythin
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Gator Bites Dog! Video!!
Animals  (tags: dogs, alligators, attacked, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, pets )

Cher
- 562 days ago - palmbeachpost.com
A Loxahatchee dog was attacked by an alligator, suffering broken bones and lacerations.
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World's Most Endangered Alligator Released in China
Animals  (tags: alligators, China, released, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, extinction, protection, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 578 days ago - wcs.org
Three adult Chinese alligators - the world's most endangered crocodilian species - were successfully released in China recently by a team of biologists in an effort to help restore the species to the Yangtze River valley, the New York-based Wildlife
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Alligator Found in Kitchen
Animals  (tags: alligators, humans, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 593 days ago - winnipegsun.com
The sound in the kitchen was more than mice. Authorities say a 69-year-old Florida woman found an almost 2.5-metre long alligator prowling in her kitchen late Monday night.
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Teens Accused Of Trying to Steal Alligators From Mini Golf Course! Video!
Animals  (tags: alligators, babies, stealing, teens, crime, charges, felony, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 598 days ago - wftv.com
The five men are in jail for trying to steal alligators from a miniature golf course. It happened early Thursday morning along A-1-A in Daytona Beach Shores.
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Antibiotic Alligator: Promising Proteins Lurk in Reptile Blood
Animals  (tags: alligators, antibiotics, proteins, bacteria, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 604 days ago - sciencenews.org
Researchers hunting for new antibiotics might get some aid from gator blood. Scientists are zeroing in on snippets of proteins found in American alligator blood that kill a wide range of disease-causing microbes and bacteria, including the formidable
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Alligator Hunter's Plea: Please Don't Feed the Animals!
Animals  (tags: north carolina, wildanimals, wildlife, alligators, habitat, humans, protection, endangered )

Jacquelin
- 608 days ago - islandpacket.com
It was 10 a.m. Tuesday and Joe Maffo's Critter Management had three alligator pulls to complete. Spring is when the animals come out of torper, similar to hibernation. In April, they begin to look for mates. Mark Galyon, a former Marine and Maffo'
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