Re: Passion!
Nicol, you should come visit! I have an alligator that I see most days on one of my favorite running trails.
She has quite a legendary history, including being evacuated during a park fire, only to crawl the mile or more it took to go back to her home spot in her favorite swamp pond.
Here she is with one of her babies on her back.
She is quite the successful mother, having a good number of babies every year whom she frequently carries around on her back. We don't see much of her in the winter months, and many of the alligators in the coldest areas here have been brumating - basically hibernating with their snouts out of the water when there is a hard freeze:
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