2007-01-27 07:09:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
The problems with the above post are as follows....
Croc pics are regularly passed off as alligators online.
A well-taken picture can make an alligator -LOOK- a whole lot bigger than it really is.
I'm sure I've seen that pic you're talking about, but if you e-mail me a copy, I can get all the info on it that you need to be sure of what you're looking at. Most of the time when these things go around they are crocodiles, NOT alligators.
The largest alligator ever recorded was 19 feet 2 inches but this record is not generally accepted as an official measurement.(McIlhenny {Yes the hot sauce guy, he was into alligators too back in the day} measured it by rifle lengths but the problem with that is that when you're out for a while shooting alligators underwater at point blank range, you have to cut off the end of your gun a few times and he wasn't sure how much of his gun he had cut off, he knew how many lengths, but not the length of what he was measuring with.)
Largest OFFICIAL alligator measurement in Florida is 17 & 1/2 feet.
Edited to add......
Might be talking about this one... http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp
So Snopes (which tends to know what they're talking about) says 12 to 13 feet on this gator and it was in Georgia... Sorry, guy.
2007-01-27 08:16:42 · answer #1 · answered by gimmenamenow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They just killed a 23 footer north of Houston, TX. Got some pictures of it swimming across the lake there with a full grown deer in its maw.
2007-01-27 07:15:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋