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HHI Dave
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 Posted: Apr 19, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: Wakeboarding season isn't the only season that's here now. |
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April is the beginning of gator mating season.
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Alligators will tell you, it's not just the birds and the bees having all the fun
Published Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Love is in the lagoons.
Photo: April marks not only the Verizon Heritage golf tournament but also the beginning of alligator mating. This alligator was seen prowling a lagoon along the fairway of the 7th hole of the Harbour Town Golf Links. Or, more accurately, there's a primal desire to reproduce in those murky waters.
April marks the beginning of alligator mating season, two months when males will stroll up to several miles to find a receptive female, even if that means trekking across backyards, patios and streets.
Dominant males become territorial, staking out their preferred locale and running off smaller subordinates.
So take a few extra steps back from that pond, avoid the nests and know that it's a time of year when the typically passive reptiles are on the move, especially at night.
"Don't approach them," said Joe Maffo, owner of Critter Management on Hilton Head Island. "Gators
aren't going to turn around and attack you if they're going through your yard. They have a destination in mind."
These rough creatures have a surprisingly tender mating ritual. It begins with the male swimming circles around the female, sizing her up. He quivers his backbone to make vibrations in the water and lets out a bellow, or low moan.
Gradually, the two gators start touching each other around the face and neck. They frolic in the water, rolling around before the belly-to-belly mating begins, which typically lasts between 10 and 15 minutes.
"It's a spectacular sight," said Maffo.
Females lay an average of 40 eggs in heaps of rotting vegetation about two months after mating. The nests -- usually within 15 feet of water -- are circular and stick up a foot or two above ground.
"She's going to pick a place that's out of the way, some place fairly remote where she can guard her nest," said Dean Harrigal, a state wildlife biologist.
But in rapidly developing places like southern Beaufort County, there's a good chance that
remote location will be in someone's shrubbery, under a home or in the grass at the edge of a popular lagoon.
Mom stays close by to defend her offspring and won't hesitate
to ferociously charge. After two months of incubation, she digs up the seven-inch hatchlings and carries them by mouth to the water, where she tries to protect them from birds, raccoons and other alligators.
Most won't survive. |
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WakeBoarder44
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2007 4:32 am Post subject: |
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what a tip: "Don't approach them," said Joe Maffo
thank god we don't have gators here...
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Fling
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2007 5:42 am Post subject: |
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I better see you do an ollie over one of those dave 
Sidenote - just another reason to keep any watersport on fresh water. |
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devon
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| Fling wrote: | | Sidenote - just another reason to keep any watersport on fresh water. |
there are fresh water crockodiles
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Anthony Csogor
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2007 7:07 am Post subject: |
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yeah, i was just about to say.
National Geographics people. 
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Fling
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2007 7:54 am Post subject: |
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| devon wrote: | | there are fresh water crockodiles |
Now why did you have to go and ruin my day. |
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chavez
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | there are fresh water crockodiles |
Yes, and watch out for those fresh water chocodiles too. They like to hang out with the equally dangerous brown trout.
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HHI Dave
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| Fling wrote: | I better see you do an ollie over one of those dave
Sidenote - just another reason to keep any watersport on fresh water. |
Not all of us have that option. Besides, gators don't live in saltwater, they live in brackish water.
Now sharks on the other hand.... 
| WakeBoarder44 wrote: | what a tip: "Don't approach them," said Joe Maffo
thank god we don't have gators here... |
I've known Joe for years. Helluva nice guy. He catches gators (and other critters) for a living. One of the few people in this state licensed to capture and kill gators. |
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| Posted: Apr 20, 2007 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| chavez wrote: | | Quote: | | there are fresh water crockodiles |
Yes, and watch out for those fresh water chocodiles too. They like to hang out with the equally dangerous brown trout. |
The Corn Speckled Brown Snake can be seen around these parts. Scary stuff. |
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WIsconsIN
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2007 8:22 am Post subject: |
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ahh Wisconsin.. no tsunamis, hurricanes, low tourism, no Crocodiles, and a nice winter to ski in...  |
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HHI Dave
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| WIsconsIN wrote: | | a nice winter to ski in... |
Yeah, in May. |
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blaydeman
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| Posted: Apr 22, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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i compete with sea lions.
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Elysia
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Elysia
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Punkpenguin
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I saw a gator in the weeds while i was riding on a lake, so the next time i was on that side of the lake i charged at him and tryed to ollie him  but he dove under |
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Elysia
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| i like how you guys KILLED THIS THREAD.... |
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | These rough creatures have a surprisingly tender mating ritual. It begins with the male swimming circles around the female, sizing her up. He quivers his backbone to make vibrations in the water and lets out a bellow, or low moan. |
I wonder if this move really works on chicks too. I swear I've seen guys try and use this move a few times at a bar...
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2007 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| LakeIolaLuke's post of the party hat made me laugh out loud in class. we need more pointless threads for when i don't feel like listening in accounting |
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Elysia
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ontrider
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2007 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| Elysia, stop crying or I will instruct Florida to suck all the water from your precious lake. |
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Elysia
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2007 11:04 am Post subject: |
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wtf does that have to do with anything...hahaha
GO FOR IT! I DARE YOU! 
BACK TO TOPIC....LET THE SMLEYS BEGIN! |
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