WOW....That is One Big Critter

 WOW......OH MY GOSH

that bad boy is BIG!!

Mom showed us furs

this critter on the laptop.

She told us that Lily and Misty

would be a snack but I would

be a good start to a meal, 

since I am bigger.

So glad that I have never

came face to face

with something like this.

Chey

Below is the article

we got from the internet. 

by CNN

 

 6:25 AM EDT, Fri September 10, 2021

FOLKSTON, Ga. / CNN —  

Okefenokee Joe, an11-and-a-half-foot alligator who is believed to have lived in a Georgia swamp since World War II, has died, officials said.

The alligator, affectionately called Oke Joe, passed away from old age, officials from Georgia’s Coastal Ecology Lab said. He had been part of a satellite tag program and researchers were observing his movements in the Okefenokee Swamp since June 2020.

Experts aren’t sure on Oke Joe’s age, but he “was a very old alligator as he had scar tissue over both eyes and his scutes were worn almost smooth,” the lab said. “Alligators can live to be approximately 80 years old though so it is possible he was close to that!”

Joe’s last tracked movement was on July 20, and the lab said, “We first thought the tag had simply fallen off as it had been several weeks since we had received any GPS points from him.”

But after several weeks, the satellite tag was found and the lab confirmed his death.

“We are so grateful to have known him, for his contribution to science and the further understanding and preservation of his species,” they said.