to pick up, capture, or otherwise handle the animal. Between 2000 and 2007, alligator attacks averaged just under 11 per year in Florida, with a death ratio of less than 10%. Between 1948 and 2005, wildlife officials documented 379 alligator attacks on people, which resulted in 17 deaths....
large male alligators have been known to take down a Florida panther and an American Black Bear, making the American alligator the apex predator throughout its distribution.[12] The American alligator is known as King of the Everglades. although the American Crocodile (which shares parts of the...