Comments on: Photohunt “Scary”

By: Dina

Dina — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:18:00 +0000

Sorry Klaus, I can’t look at this. Too SCARY!

By: birdlady

birdlady — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:34:31 +0000

Eeek! How much pressure in that bite? a bazillion psi! birdladys last blog post..Magical Hour in Oct...

By: Paz

Paz — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:34:00 +0000

Oh, my goodness. Scary, scary, scary. I prefer to look at them through your photo instead of real life. Thank you very much.

Paz

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By: Klaus

Klaus — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:31:48 +0000

@Denise: Glad you like! And yes – it is true that they can jump out of the water. They basically use their tail
as a catapult, to propel them. I have seen them coming up about 6-7 feet without a problem. You have to consider
that a Gators bodystructure consist of almost 90% muscle, the tail being one extremely powerful one. Thus said,
usually they are way to lazy to do it.

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:18:26 +0000

I thought I was seeing things but there he is with his mouth wide open and slamming shut. What a fun photo but also a magnificent one. When we were in the Everglades a few years back, someone told me that they could jump out of the water with the speed of a porpoise. Is that an exaggeration? True or False? I would be interested in your answer. I still enjoyed my trip there and couldn’t take enough photos of them. Incredible animals and your action shot is great

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