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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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• Florida Fish and Wildlife is investigating the death of a man in his 60s who was swimming at Blue Spring State Park Monday morning. Fish and Wildlife Officer Lenny Salberg said park visitors had called the agency to report a large alligator in that area but it’s too early to know if a gator attacked the man.
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• It’s been about two months since an alligator bit off Rachel Lilienthal’s right arm while she was swimming in the Wekiva River. Lilienthal says much of her recovery is learning how to live life with one arm.
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• The warming weather means Florida’s alligators and crocodiles are growing more active.
Wildlife authorities are urging caution.
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