A viral video shared on social media shows a huge alligator chomps down on a 6-foot gator for a snack in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
A Twitter user Taylor Soper shared the video Wednesday, showing the huge alligator eating the other gator whole.
Soper said the video was taken from his parents’ backyard and told the snack was a 6ft gator.
Soper said the video was taken by his dad.
It is usual for alligators to eat large prey such as deer, bears, and even other gators.
Alligators live an average of 35-50 years in the wild. They have been known to live 60-80 years in human care.
According to the Key West Aquarium, if a gator has caught something too large to eat in one bite, it will drown it by violently spinning it in the water in a move commonly called a “death roll.”
According to the Key West Aquarium, American alligators inhabit most of the southeastern United States; primarily Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia. The largest population of gators live in Gainesville, FL. They live in freshwater rivers, lakes, swamps, and marshes. There are an estimated five million American alligators in the southeastern U.S. with a quarter of the alligator population in Florida. Year after year we find that children and adults are always interested in learning more information about alligators when visiting Florida.
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