• Wildlife officials have removed 250 alligators from Disney properties in the five years since a 2-year-old boy was killed by one of the reptiles at the Grand Floridian Resort and Spa.
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• You may know the reality TV show, “Swamp Brothers.” On Facebook, the show is asking for the public’s help in finding a rare Leucistic alligator named Snowball.
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• Orlando topped the number of nuisance alligator complaints last year. That’s according to data from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program.
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• The Orange County Sheriff says the search is on for the body of a 2-year-old boy snatched by an alligator at Disney World. Authorities say the alligator dragged the Nebraska toddler under water at a man-made lagoon near Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort.
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• Researchers say the Nile crocodile could become the Everglades’ latest invasive top predator.
They say they have caught three from the wild in south Florida.
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• Rambo’s future is in limbo. Rambo is a motorcycle-riding, leather-wearing alligator who lives with Mary Thorn in Lakeland. Thorn and Rambo have been inseparable for 11 years. But as 90.7’s Crystal Chavez reports, Thorn’s nervously waiting for word from the state about whether she can keep her companion.
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• In the Florida Everglades alligators are in trouble.
The reptiles are scrawny, weighing 80 percent of what they should. The alligators grow slower, reproduce less and die younger.
Researchers are trying to understand why the Everglades’ iconic species is in decline and what it means for the ailing river of grass.
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