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Originally Posted by MDLNB
Alligators here before us? So? Trees were here also but we cut them down and use them. Poor trees. We are here now and we are the top of the food chain. Sorry about that....not really. If gators are a threat, then we get rid of them. Eat them, make useful products out of them or stuff them.....who cares? We are here now and why should we be concerned about their welfare? Because they look neat? Because the Yankees love to take photos of them to send to their Northern friends and family? Sorry, but humans get the top slot in The Villages. Pets get the second slot and gators can be moved or eaten.
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Alligators play an important role in maintaining ecosystem balance. Sitting at the top of the food chain, alligators are apex predators and help keep other animal populations in balance, quoted from research I have done. Now an innocent dog is dead and an alligator soon to be dead, simply doing what they do naturally. Remember when wolves were being hunted and shot in Yellowstone because they were a "nuisance"? In the 70 years of the wolves’ absence, the entire Yellowstone ecosystem fell out of balance. Coyotes ran rampant, and the elk population exploded, overgrazing willows and aspens. When wolves were re-introduced into the area, everything returned to the normal balance of nature and everything thrived.