A group of Georgia state wildlife biologists received that uncanny welcome after recently looking down a gopher tortoise hole and seeing a 4.5-foot alligator 'smiling back.'
You typically don't want to be close enough to see the expression on a large alligator's face.
"Gopher tortoise burrows benefit over 350 different species, but American alligators aren't usually on that list," Georgia Wildlife Resources Division said in a Facebook post Wednesday. "Nevertheless, the past three winters in Tatnall County, our biologists have found a gator in a gopher hole." In the last two years, a gator greeted Georgia biologists at the same burrow and a nearby one in 2021.
State biologists speculate there's memory involved as to why this particular gator traveled so far to use the hole.
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