There’s always more to the story, of course. The victim, identified as Cynthia Covert, was dragged into a pond behind her friend’s home on Kiawah Island, near Charleston, and said calmly, “I guess I won’t do this again.” “The last fatal alligator attack to occur in South Carolina was in May 2020, when a 58-year-old woman saw an alligator and went to touch it, despite her friend’s warnings, according to The Post and Courier. I suppose it’s not nice to laugh, but still…
One was a guy retrieving Frisbees from a lake in Florida, and the other was a woman in Charleston. It mentioned two other people who were taken by gators. Explore Alligator New York City and help Pat the alligator uncover the mystery behind his super scary family in Later Alligator, available now on Nintendo Sw. Reading the article, I did have to shake my head. Needless to say, that gator was dispatched pretty quickly. I suppose you’ve heard about the person who was dragged into a retention pond and killed in Myrtle Beach on Friday. I wish I could have caught the height of the spray from them, but it wasn’t a moment for fussing with camera settings. Instead, remembering what I’d read about alligators’ jumping ability, I considered the creature’s large size, the relative fragility of the boardwalk fence, and moved on: content to have had the experience.Īs impressive as the noise was, the bubbles created by the vibration were even more interesting.
But in this instance there were no responses from other alligators, and I certainly wasn’t going to challenge the fellow with a bellow of my own. When one male bellows, others in the area will respond, creating a curtain of sound. Then, they raise their heads and tails, and produce that deep, low sound that vibrates the water around them. Filling themselves with air, they inflate like a balloon, lifting their bodies out of the water. Male alligators bellow to attract females, establish territory, and claim their place at the top of pond hierarchies. I often hear the creatures’ bellows during mating season, but never had seen the display it was an opportunity not to be missed. I backed off a bit, and then began taking photos.
Needless to say, a bellowing alligator perhaps twelve feet away was enough to raise my adrenalin level.