Watermelon-Stealing Alligator Caught In The Act

  • 8 years ago
Alligators eat all sorts of things, but typically melons aren’t among their preferred food choices. Nonetheless, one in South Florida developed a taste for watermelon and soon after turned to a life of crime.


Alligators eat all sorts of things, but typically melons aren’t among their preferred food choices, notes Orlando Sentinel. 

Nonetheless, one in South Florida developed a taste for watermelon and soon after turned to a life of crime. 

The large reptile was caught clenching a melon tightly in its sizeable jaw while fleeing from the farm where he’d presumably stolen the tasty fruit. 

Authorities were tipped off to the animal’s activities by a Hendry County grower experiencing notable crop shrinkage. 

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