A local of Lakeland In Florida saw a 12-foot alligator devouring another of its type. A group of people, including Alex Figuero, saw a giant gator chewing down on a smaller, less fortunate one while they were hiking along a route in the 1,200-acre Circle B Bar reserve.
Fortunately, he was able to record the incident in a video, which has naturally gone viral. The smaller reptile can be seen being shaken and chewed by the gator, which is the ᴍᴇᴛʜod they use to shatter the bones of their food to make it simpler to ingest and digest.
Alligators typically eat fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, turtles, and small mammals. Cannibalism is thought to be a regular behavior for this species, nevertheless. In fact, a study of a Florida marsh revealed that over the course of a year, 6 to 7 percent of the resident juvenile alligators were consumed by their adult counterparts. Most of those that were eaten were under 3 years old.
Cannibalism is more prevalent when food is scarce and may even assist control gator overpopulation. In another case, Taylor Soper just posted another astounding video of an alligator being eaten on the Internet.
Soper said that he and his father had seen a gator eating an even smaller gator. He claimed that there was some crazy stuff going on over there. Nature truly is insane.
