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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (61434)10/28/1999 7:56:00 PM
From: Michael M  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Why would they eat their young, bp? Plenty of golfers to feed everybody around here. Six good sized gators (one huge) on grassy bank of big lagoon by #2 last Sat. Pity they were too well fed to speed up play.



To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (61434)10/28/1999 8:28:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 108807
 
Maybe Ish is thinking of the situations in which males of various species kill the offspring by different sires?



To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (61434)10/28/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: nihil  Respond to of 108807
 
The famous and well authenticated story is that the expert said:
"Every year the female alligator (allegatrix) lays one thousand eggs, and close behind her the male alligator (allegathim) eats 999.
(Observer): "So what?"
(Expert): "If he didn't we would be up to our asses in alligators."



To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (61434)10/28/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
From your source-

Larger gators will eat fish, turtles, snakes, waterfowl, small mammals, and even smaller alligators.

They eat them between the terrible twos and teenaged, not the eggs.