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Post by gingerkid on Sept 4, 2014 16:32:37 GMT -5
ROFL, Ed!
We watched a documentary on the electric eel and were amazed to see one shocking the daylights out of a caiman.
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Post by mohs on Sept 4, 2014 18:16:09 GMT -5
I don't know much about gators certainly not well studied but the caiman eyes are especially evil because of their red nature they may be some of the only creatures with red eyes except me when I wake up
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Post by mohs on Sept 4, 2014 18:18:17 GMT -5
ROFL, Ed! We watched a documentary on the electric eel and were amazed to see one shocking the daylights out of a caiman. your eyes would be red to if an eel did that to you mostly
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Post by parfive on Sept 5, 2014 1:34:37 GMT -5
Mugsy the Cat ain’t askeerd o’ no friggin’ crocagators.
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Post by jamesp on Sept 5, 2014 5:08:56 GMT -5
Burmese Python has little respect for alligator either. At 1:06 snake bites top of gator's jaw when gator snaps at it. Gator says no mas, snake a force.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 6:16:58 GMT -5
Now that's a bad ass snake.maybe they were old friends having a friendly wrestling match.ive seen a person get wrapped up with a 12' retic at herpeton a local reptile shop.if that dude would have been alone,he'd prob be dead. Dave
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Post by jamesp on Sept 5, 2014 8:27:43 GMT -5
Now that's a bad ass snake.maybe they were old friends having a friendly wrestling match.ive seen a person get wrapped up with a 12' retic at herpeton a local reptile shop.if that dude would have been alone,he'd prob be dead. Dave If there is one advantage a gator has besides jaw strength, it is speed and accuracy of it's bite. That darn snake dodged those jaws, go figure. And got bit and continued to mess w/the gator.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2014 12:41:20 GMT -5
gator shoulda deathrolled the snake into pieces. Bad use of weapons...
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Post by gingerkid on Sept 5, 2014 14:10:30 GMT -5
parfive, I think I've seen a vid of the same cat (feral?) while a gator was eating chicken parts? Looks like the snake intimidated the gator?
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Post by parfive on Sept 5, 2014 15:27:21 GMT -5
Chicken parts? I don’t care if he’s munchin’ on a wildebeest, I ain’t tappin’ him on the nose. : )Pavlov’s crocs next week on PBS. ”Mark Evans travels to Namibia’s Chobe River, a place that’s known as the croc attack capital of the world. Crocodiles here are growing in size and number and so is the frequency of attacks. Each time an attack occurs, the locals kill crocs in retaliation. To find a way to keep both people and crocodiles safe, Evans joins leading croc experts Rom Whitaker and Dr. Patrick Aust to carry out a radical new experiment. The idea is to train crocs to associate the sound of a bell with an electric shock. Evans meets attack victims and puts the croc training experiment to the test, with surprising results.” Big puddy cats this time . . . little tussle over a McElephant.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Sept 5, 2014 15:55:21 GMT -5
I don't know much about gators certainly not well studied but the caiman eyes are especially evil because of their red nature they may be some of the only creatures with red eyes
You're right, there's not many. How 'bout this cute little red-eyed tree frog?
Here's a nightmare for you
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Post by mohs on Sept 5, 2014 17:13:52 GMT -5
well I feel better because when I made that comment I figure I put my foot in my mouth and I was going a Noah Ark list full of animals w/ red eyes cool pictures!!!
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Post by gingerkid on Sept 5, 2014 17:17:32 GMT -5
parfive, I agree, I wouldn't tap a gator on the nose either, lol. Here's the vid of Mugsy with the alligator eating chicken. What bothers me about the vid is the folks laughing while this is going on and I wondered why the heck were people feeding gators near the swamp bank, especially knowing that there are hungry feral cats nearby that would also try to retrieve the chicken thrown on the bank to eat? Imagine it won't be long before we hear of Mugsy's demise. edited to add info for the youtube vid. "Mugsy, the bravest--or most foolish--cat you've ever seen, takes on a hungry gator Cajun Pride Swamp Tours, LaPlace, Louisiana. These are really stupid folks or just don't care for the cats safety.....either way not bright... ...This is at Cajun Pride Swamp Tour where many cats are living around the office facing swamp. They've been in this kind of situation all the time. It's not like they put chicken to bring the alligator to the shore and put the cat right front of him."
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 7, 2014 15:17:58 GMT -5
That video that James posted! What a freakin' moron that "PUTZ" was....Hadn't a clue on even how to handle a gator!! No pity for fools!
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Post by jamesp on Sept 7, 2014 18:34:07 GMT -5
That video that James posted! What a freakin' moron that "PUTZ" was....Hadn't a clue on even how to handle a gator!! No pity for fools! Remember watching Tarzan. He tackled them(on TV ha). Remember Mutual of Omaha with Mr. Perkins and his assistant Jim. Ole big Jim could grapple w/some animals. He might have a slight chance, but he was a big stout dude that knew tricks. Marlin sent him after all kinds of critters. Bet Marlin made all the money, ha. Poor Jim.
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Post by Pat on Sept 7, 2014 20:33:42 GMT -5
Our five pound kitty chases two 20lb Maine Coons in their own yard. They live behind us. She also chases the big cat that lives next door out of our yard.
Kitties can be tough!
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Post by jamesp on Sept 7, 2014 22:02:29 GMT -5
Our five pound kitty chases two 20lb Maine Coons in their own yard. They live behind us. She also chases the big cat that lives next door out of our yard. Kitties can be tough!
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Post by ash on Sept 12, 2014 2:39:30 GMT -5
The biggest gators I have seen here in South Louisiana are down by the Petite Amite (Pronounced Petty ahhh mitt)or so I'm told...i am NOT cajun lol, from NLA but livin in SLA. I forget the name of the canal, but there are some locks there for Ascension Parish when the water gets too high. All kinda things get stuck there (dead animals and such when the locks are closed), so i was told that is where the big boys hang out. i remember one time, been years ago now, we were scooting down that canal and passed one enormous gator sunning on the bank. That thing was HUGE. We were in a 16' boat and the canal is about twice that wide and that gator looked like the size of the boat(course it wasn't but still when they get that big, they start to not only get long but massive. The gator acted like we were not there as we zipped past and we did not stop. I can still remember that one, he was freakin big. Alligators are all over SLA and no one pays them much attention at all, go fishing and you will be hard pressed not to see one in the day time, go at night and you can walk across the bayou on the things. I don't remember any of the rest, but i sure remember that one. That dude was a MAN!
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Post by jamesp on Sept 12, 2014 18:33:39 GMT -5
The biggest gators I have seen here in South Louisiana are down by the Petite Amite (Pronounced Petty ahhh mitt)or so I'm told...i am NOT cajun lol, from NLA but livin in SLA. I forget the name of the canal, but there are some locks there for Ascension Parish when the water gets too high. All kinda things get stuck there (dead animals and such when the locks are closed), so i was told that is where the big boys hang out. i remember one time, been years ago now, we were scooting down that canal and passed one enormous gator sunning on the bank. That thing was HUGE. We were in a 16' boat and the canal is about twice that wide and that gator looked like the size of the boat(course it wasn't but still when they get that big, they start to not only get long but massive. The gator acted like we were not there as we zipped past and we did not stop. I can still remember that one, he was freakin big. Alligators are all over SLA and no one pays them much attention at all, go fishing and you will be hard pressed not to see one in the day time, go at night and you can walk across the bayou on the things. I don't remember any of the rest, but i sure remember that one. That dude was a MAN! Somewhere around 7-8 feet long they start getting brawny. By 9-10 feet they are heavy. At 12 and up they take your breath away. The 2-3 footers are scary fast, with puppy teeth.
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