‘Make sure your children stay away’: Large alligator spotted in Georgia pond

[Teh One Who Knocks]

WSBTV.com News Staff


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Police are warning families to stay away from a pond after an officer spotted a large alligator.

The Montezuma Police Department posted on Facebook officers were dispatched to the Washington Street area near Cole Pond in reference to an alligator. Montezuma is in Macon County.

People responded to the post insisted they’ve seen larger alligators in the pond.

Montezuma Police asked the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to check the pond.

It is the most recent alligator sighting in Georgia. In March, we reported on a grisly experiment at the Okefenokee Swamp.

Biologists with the UGA Coastal Ecology lab set up a camera next to a carcass and captured a “monster” alligator on camera.

There are approximately 200,000 to 250,000 alligators in Georgia, according to the DNR.

Alligators typically live south of the fall line which roughly traverses the cities of Columbus, Macon and Augusta.

Any alligators found above the fall line were likely relocated there by humans.

[DemonGeminiX]

Yeah we have a lot of gators. And they get pretty big. So what? :dunno:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

so keep your children away

[DemonGeminiX]

Our children ride those motherfuckers.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

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[lost in melb.]

What's the fall line?

[DemonGeminiX]

What's the fall line?

It marks an abrupt change in elevation. Georgia is essentially split into two different geological regions: below the fall line is relatively low level, swamp lands and such. Above the fall line is more of a higher elevation, mountainous and hilly regions. The gators will be in the swamps, naturally. If you see a gator in the higher elevation area up in northern Georgia, those gators didn't get there by themselves.

If that thing was in Macon, then it was too far North.