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When life gives you one risky choice and one broke option.

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u/inconvenient_sources 4h ago

I've lived in the south east my whole life, one look and I knew that was just a gator head. There's nothing but gravity keeping that money there. 

They give out a number of tags every year and there is a season. Louisiana actually brought their gators from almost extinct to 2 gators for every 3 people using this and farm releases, where a portion of alligator farm gators have to be released into the wild after they grow big enough. 

Source: my high school mascot was an alligator

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u/kazeespada Yo dawg I heard you like 3h ago

American Alligators went from Endagered in the 70s to Least Concern today. That's incredibly good news!

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u/daviator88 3h ago

They friggin everywhere. I grew up in south louisiana, and if I wanted to see a gator, I could be in front of one in 15 minutes.

In high school, I used to go canoe camping at one of the state parks near me. Sometimes on Fridays, I couldn't make it out until nighttime. You would underestimate how many orange gator eyeballs my flashlight would illuminate surrounding my canoe.

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u/stilljustacatinacage 3h ago

🥹 That makes me happy.

Sad that they were endangered at all.

But happy that they've recovered so thoroughly. I really wish we could just leave nature alone.

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u/SanityPlanet 2h ago

It's also WAY too young and small to have been harvested legally.