When I was in college my friends and I would water ski almost everyday in a creek that had alligators in it and never had an incident. Now that I'm older and look back that was some real dumb shit we did.
Not really. When I was a kid went swimming and skiing in lakes and rivers in FL. No problem. Even was tube skiing once and landed on a gator. Just don't go swimming at night.
It sounds like a good time! But I immediately started thinking of a myriad of ways that that could have gone horribly wrong for you! I'm glad that it didn't! I have my own stories of stuff that I did when I was young, that make me look back, and thank God that I survived in one piece! Sadly, none of my stories have any gators. At least not yet! 😹
South east Oklahoma is part of the Alligators natural historic distribution. My grandfather told me about Alligators near Idabel when he was a boy in the early 1920s. Alligators are not an animal most people need to be concerned about. Your chances of dieing in a car accident are hundreds of thousands times greater.
@@maryvangalder5855 can you clarify your statement please it is hard to interpret correctly your intent. What monster? Not safe camping? What? You do know hat more people are killed by deer and dogs than alligators yes? Lets look at just the state of Florida with its large population of alligators. On average two people are killed by dogs every year in Florida whereas alligator fatalities are on average about one every three years. There are more alligators in Florida than there are dogs. So in Florida you are 6 times more likely to die from a dog attack as from an alligator attack.
There is at least one alligator in Hugo Lake and Pine Creek Lake outside of Valliant. I didn't know gators were as populated in SE Oklahoma until this video. People do not realize gators can live in cold weather for a little while, even when the surface of the water is freezing up by going somewhat catatonic keeping hit's snout out of the water almost like in suspended animation. Gators and crocs have one of the best immune system of anything on earth. Think about how long they have lived on earth and they survived the Chicxulub asteroid(dinosaur killer). Look at all the extremely nasty, bacterial infested waters. They are studying these reptiles to see what environmental factors in this area plays in their life cycle. They are using gator and croc blood to see how effective it is with bacteria and viruses affecting humans. It is still a ways off for human trials but, they are getting much closer. I can handle gators in this area but, we need to get rid of these pythons in Louisiana, Florida, etc.
Well biologists say gators are black/charcoal colored so they can warm up quickly if there's even a small amount of sunshine, so they can adapt to living further north and west than nearly any other crocodilian
Uniformitarianism is a masonic lie with absolutely no science supporting it, in fact, the opposite is proven. The concept of time and therefore the orbit the earth around the current sun is only around 12,000 years. That's when the Golden age, the timeless age ended with a cataclysm and biblical flood. To postulate how much time exited before the flood is impossible as there was no reference to time then, no day or night, no stars in the sky. During the golden age the sun was Saturn in axial alligment with venus, earth, and mars. All these planets were surrounded in an opaque purple plasma sheeth. Dinosaurs never existed. They invented whole organisms with fragments of rock, it's absurd. There's no skeptic peer review to be found. Furthermore the stretches of time are unproven and unimaginable. They have these inconceivable spans of time implemented in their theory to tie in the masonic lie of Darwinism. The people who honestly believe in giant lizard monsters that existed millions of years ago, that could never support their weight and biomechanically make no sense are as guilty as the religious zealots for not doing their homework. Humanity REAL history has been erased. You sheeple have been brainwashed by the marxist indoctrination camps you call school. Now yall think humans came from monkeys and that your DNA was randomly sequenced and that most of it is junk. Oh how ignorant you sheeple are. Intelligent design is the most ovious fact of nature. Math is reflected in nature because math is the code to the computer simulation we live in. If only you knew what Freemasonary was about. There all Luciferians hell bent on the manipulation of the masses so they can slowly cull them off. Wake up sheeple, you venerate the people who hate and lie to you.
Growing up in Claremore during the 50's my cousins gathered turtle eggs to hatch/sell. They also found/hatched Alligator eggs. My dad drained a large pond near Skiatook and there was a monstrous gator in it. Gators are all over this state. Nothing new.
Went swimming in lake placid, hiked Whiteface mountain, and bobsled at the Olympic center. It is a real legend in NY. We're taught in upstate that it could travel lake to lake.
I believe. But they are not supposed to be that far north. We've quit hunting as a society . We don't trap anymore. We have become a docile society . I still trap with my 82 year old father , I'm 64. We trap beavers that ruin people's ponds and small lakes here in Texas. They are real pest. It's amazing what these beavers do in damage. They'll stop up creaks that ranchers depend on to water there cattle an sheep and goats. And or flood pastures. A few are great. But they can over whelm a ranch and farm sometimes and that is when we are called in. Gators can become a problem too if not controlled . When I was in Florida, people's pets would just disappear where they lived by lakes. Well I've seen that here as well. And its happening more often . No one hunts or traps anymore. Not like they used to. Animals are. Not endangered like we are being lead to believe. Just like the United States is not over populated like we were lead to believe . It was proven 2012 that we are only 5 to 8 percent populated . That there are vast areas in this land where there is nothing.
WHAT?!?!? I moved here from Florida and took me 2 years to stop automatically approaching a body of water cautiously - now I need to allow that caution to rear it's ugly head again? People lost their little dogs all the time to alligators in Florida!
I had a friend in Tecumseh who was a land owner. He swore back in the 1980's that he had at least one alligator living in his biggest stock pond. He told me on several occasions he had seen it while out inspecting his land. He passed away in the early 2000's.
I live in OK and have a sasquatch and gator that wrestle and carry on all the time. You think they want to kill each other but they are really good friends.
There have been gators in Oklahoma since I was a kid and before. We had polaroid photos when I was a teen of an alligator following our boat as we trolled fishing for Crappie on Keystone Lake. He was probably about six feet. Not HUGE, but not what you would expect on a lake in Oklahoma.
Myn family has lived an hunted this part of oklahoma for over a hundred years never heard of a allugator untill they were introduced after turning this place into wetlands.
F that! No way I’m living in any state with alligators in the wild. I’ll stick to my Rocky Mountain paradise at 9000 ft where nothing can eat you except mountain lions and bears. :)
They are now in north Texas lakes, too. People just don't know! !! Good reason to carry a gun. People disappear in the lakes, now I figure gator got them. I'd never go on lakes again.
What a stupid statement. Let's hope alligators eat women and children who want a better life for themselves in the greatest country in the world. Please do not procreate.
This is the first time I have ever heard of them being in Oklahoma! I thought they only lived in a handful of the lower S.E. states. Love news like this way more than made up complaints from politicians.
Dude i live in Delaware. And they are being found as far north as Maryland now! They basically hibernate under ice. And stick they're nose out to breath all winter. Pretty crazy.
@@jillconner5062 the ones in Maryland are released pets. The cold climate up north makes it uninhabitable for large reptiles, they are trying to make their way back to the south.
I grew up in Ardmore. In my early teens we had a family friend that lived just south of Lone Grove on a small farm. He had an alligator on his place that lived in his pond. On occasion it would venture up to the house in search of his chickens. He called the local game rangers several times to have it removed in that he worried about his kids. They kept telling him they could not do anything about it and to just watch his kids when they were out. After several calls and no action he finally went out to hunt for it. Once he found it he shot it, loaded into his pickup, and took it to the game rangers. They were about to arrest him for what he did until he reminded them of his calls to have the alligator removed and taken elsewhere. With that he left them with a dead alligator. I was told it measured over ten feet long.
@@reviewithme9913 at least one good thing can come from this if pythons try to get near this place, they would have to deal with the gators, and some juvenile pythons have been known to be eaten by gators
@@libbyhobbs4637 do me a favor, leave the alligators and crocodiles that are native out of it the Burmese pythons on the other hand, are a different story just until they’ve been eradicated from Florida but in their own country, they have to be left well enough alone to rebound from extinction
Their was an alligator that lived in man made lake in Las Colinas TX. I think he had been there ten years I think they captured him but he could still be there.
Tulsans/ North east Oklahomans: Hill people Pan Handle Oklahomans: Plains people Okc oklahomans: Urban people. Southeast oklahomans: Swamp people Southwest oklahomans: Semi desert people.
@@dwade6322I'm in Essex middle river but I've never heard of them being around but if I was swimming out millers island and saw one I'd probably shit myself lol we do have huge snapping turtles tho
OK that is cool. Oklahoma is really getting a lot of wildlife. We had a mountain lion attacking a farm goats yesterday. I saw a 3 foot bobcat. Walking down my driveway last week. He saw me stared a couple of minutes and walked on his way like I was the last thing on his mind. it was really something. I have deer in the backyard. A flock of 20 turkeys that wander in a couple of times a week. Not to mention the squirrels, possums, raccoons, armadillos, coyotes, and birds. I had not thought of alligators, but the red river runs right down into Louisiana, so I guess it’s not impossible. Anyway great story.
Well, that's one more state I'll never go fishing or live in. It's a very stealthy animal, I would never be able to relax when outdoors,😱 if I even thought there was the slightest chance of a gator, crock, boa constrictor, python, anaconda, or panther being in the vicinity. like Florida, Lousiana, Mississippi, Georgia, &, the Carolinas. .Please, PLEASE, contain them in your own world and don't bring them into mine, okay? I would however like being on a team to capture such animals, and turn them into money in my pocket, food, boots, belts, luggage, vehicle interiors and fertilizer.
The old people of my personal family told us kid of one because it would sunbathe behind grand mas house. Now a Walmart in Grand Island ne. Cold have been someone's pet but loosing chicken and dogs didn't mean a lot. My cousin had to shoot a cougar when it killed his dog. Same neighborhood. He killed it.
And we’re paying how much to find out what is common knowledge‽ just like the mountain lions that have been here in southeast Oklahoma since the 60s‽ I guess I need to start a study to start sucking up some gravy money!
Money spent on researching a alligator. I can tell you all you need to know about alligators Im being smart, i just think its a waiste of tax payers money. They have been study to death. I guess this study just proves the last study.
Have your head on a swivel around them people! I'm from SC and they can run like a dog when they want! Saw one do it and almost wrecked my car! SC Lowcountry floods and it was in a small canal by the road miles away from the river!
Gators used to own the waterways of the south. Our forefathers hunted them out of the rivers and lakes cause they're dangerous and eat small kids and livestock and domestic animals. We banished them to the everglades etc and kept them out of waterways to protect the children etc. Now it's illegal to hunt them and they'll take back all the rivers and lakes again and nowhere will be safe for your kids to splash and swim. Put alligators ahead of our small children and their lives. We'll pay for our stupidity w lives of our children. So stupid to protect things that eat us.
We grew up swimming all over Florida in the 70s with alligators and nobody in my entire north Florida area ever had any problems. Alligators are really docile scavengers. Some are even tamed to know their owners. They are only found in the United States and are really a keystone species. They have a hard time surviving to adulthood and only 1 in 100 survives. They grow very slowly and are about the only animal to eat the venomous cottonmouth water moccasin snakes. More people are murdered in Oklahoma every month than have been bitten by alligators in American history.
@@robertreed7963 * I think that adult can handle the concerns that affect child obesity, as well as any other concerns that may present itself. The idea is to be informed of any and all dangers that may cause harm.
You know the news woman is so stupid the most dangerous thing you can do is be holding a baby alligator 🐊 while it’s calling for it’s mom alligators are very strong and stealthy they can be right next to you and you won’t know it
All predators, need to be on McDonald’s menu. All bears , alligators, crocodiles, lions. If McDonald’s can make a fish go extinct because of a fish sandwich, maybe they can make our lakes and forests safer while we eat.
Sorry but not here in Kentucky and as far as I know none in Tennessee or Virginia, but I could be wrong. I remember after Katrina, there being a few found as far as Memphis, having been displaced by the flooding at the time.
@@jollyjohnthepirate3168 Jolly,. Actually we have both swamps and food. We also have bitterly cold weather every winter. Sorry. I should have mentioned that earlier. Have a nice day folks.
@@garylefevers Alligators can tolerate cold weather. They poke their snouts through holes in the ice and go into suspended animation. So I don't doubt that they live in Southeast Oklahoma.
@@garylefevers every few years one or two gets spotted hanging in the river around memphis and that was a before Katrina thing too, just more got sighted around memphis after katrina, but they arent new to memphis.
Go to Florida Louisiana and studying you can also study the pythons while y'all are there go live there but get rid of those things in Oklahoma before it's too late as a matter of fact I think you'll have already waited too late and it's too late
They've been spotting more and more of them in Tennessee. They've expanded back to original habitat that they use to claim decades and decades ago before hunting and other factors drove them back down towards the southern coastal states. At least here in Tennessee they've been making their way up the Mississippi river.
That's because having gators in Oklahoma is way different than having gators in Florida. Duh. Our gators actually go through a type of hibernation when it's below freezing.
dude, i use to swim in many mucky lakes when i was a kid. i live in the michigan- indiana area, close to lake michigan. i remember when i was around 9 years old having fun, swimming in the lake, jumping off the dock and i saw these eyes glaring back at me and what looked like an alligator tail. i mentioned it to my parents and they told me it was just a muskrat or turtle....never went tubing again after that. come to find out 15 years later that there have been cases of alligators swimming up the rivers and surviving the cold weather. wild animals know how to adapt.
The range of the American Alligator is far up the Mississippi river drainage into Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Many years ago I saw an alligator on Barren Creek Polk County Arkansas; it flows into the Mountain Fork Little River in Oklahoma. I was just a kid and no one believed me.
* When the Corp. of Engineers straighten the White River in Ark. years ago, and ruined it, IMO, they airlifted a number of alligators out of the state. Our government sure knows how to waste money and ruin habitat.
I grew up in Idabel McCurtain County, cruised all over that county back in the 60s and 70s never came across any except at the feed store. They had some babies there , one niped my finger, maybe 68. Every weekend all over Broken Bow lake, never saw any there thank goodness.
Perhaps the "native population" was released into the area around the same time. It was a popular thing to order baby alligators back in that time I heard, then they grew up and people would just let them go.
Unlike crocodiles, and camen , alligators have evolved to with stand colder temperatures, if the surface freezes, you can see their snouts sticking out of the ice to breathe, they are very resilient
When I was in college my friends and I would water ski almost everyday in a creek that had alligators in it and never had an incident. Now that I'm older and look back that was some real dumb shit we did.
Not really. When I was a kid went swimming and skiing in lakes and rivers in FL. No problem. Even was tube skiing once and landed on a gator. Just don't go swimming at night.
I'd never go in a lake or river, now. People disappear. Now we know why.
It sounds like a good time! But I immediately started thinking of a myriad of ways that that could have gone horribly wrong for you! I'm glad that it didn't! I have my own stories of stuff that I did when I was young, that make me look back, and thank God that I survived in one piece! Sadly, none of my stories have any gators. At least not yet! 😹
Hell, Wally Gator used to water ski on his own gat dang tail. After all, he was the greatest operator in the swamp.
@@philbe3095 😂😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😝
Eat them before they get out of hand
South east Oklahoma is part of the Alligators natural historic distribution. My grandfather told me about Alligators near Idabel when he was a boy in the early 1920s. Alligators are not an animal most people need to be concerned about. Your chances of dieing in a car accident are hundreds of thousands times greater.
Yes unless you're planning on fishing an area you didn't know there were gators in, or swimming in an area.
B. S. Ur not safe camping ... Useless monster s... Ruining everything so stupid
@@maryvangalder5855 can you clarify your statement please it is hard to interpret correctly your intent. What monster? Not safe camping? What? You do know hat more people are killed by deer and dogs than alligators yes? Lets look at just the state of Florida with its large population of alligators. On average two people are killed by dogs every year in Florida whereas alligator fatalities are on average about one every three years. There are more alligators in Florida than there are dogs. So in Florida you are 6 times more likely to die from a dog attack as from an alligator attack.
Thanks for answering that question. I had no idea they could weather it that far north.
Is that a challenge?
There is at least one alligator in Hugo Lake and Pine Creek Lake outside of Valliant. I didn't know gators were as populated in SE Oklahoma until this video. People do not realize gators can live in cold weather for a little while, even when the surface of the water is freezing up by going somewhat catatonic keeping hit's snout out of the water almost like in suspended animation. Gators and crocs have one of the best immune system of anything on earth. Think about how long they have lived on earth and they survived the Chicxulub asteroid(dinosaur killer). Look at all the extremely nasty, bacterial infested waters. They are studying these reptiles to see what environmental factors in this area plays in their life cycle. They are using gator and croc blood to see how effective it is with bacteria and viruses affecting humans. It is still a ways off for human trials but, they are getting much closer. I can handle gators in this area but, we need to get rid of these pythons in Louisiana, Florida, etc.
Thanks for the info! I’ve learned a lot from this vid and your comment.
@@marydonohoe8200 Thanks! I try and comment on most things they talk about in the videos I watch.
People need to know they are there! All I have ever heard up until this is denial from Fish and Game that they could possibly be there.
Well biologists say gators are black/charcoal colored so they can warm up quickly if there's even a small amount of sunshine, so they can adapt to living further north and west than nearly any other crocodilian
Uniformitarianism is a masonic lie with absolutely no science supporting it, in fact, the opposite is proven. The concept of time and therefore the orbit the earth around the current sun is only around 12,000 years. That's when the Golden age, the timeless age ended with a cataclysm and biblical flood. To postulate how much time exited before the flood is impossible as there was no reference to time then, no day or night, no stars in the sky. During the golden age the sun was Saturn in axial alligment with venus, earth, and mars. All these planets were surrounded in an opaque purple plasma sheeth. Dinosaurs never existed.
They invented whole organisms with fragments of rock, it's absurd. There's no skeptic peer review to be found. Furthermore the stretches of time are unproven and unimaginable. They have these inconceivable spans of time implemented in their theory to tie in the masonic lie of Darwinism. The people who honestly believe in giant lizard monsters that existed millions of years ago, that could never support their weight and biomechanically make no sense are as guilty as the religious zealots for not doing their homework. Humanity REAL history has been erased. You sheeple have been brainwashed by the marxist indoctrination camps you call school. Now yall think humans came from monkeys and that your DNA was randomly sequenced and that most of it is junk. Oh how ignorant you sheeple are. Intelligent design is the most ovious fact of nature. Math is reflected in nature because math is the code to the computer simulation we live in. If only you knew what Freemasonary was about. There all Luciferians hell bent on the manipulation of the masses so they can slowly cull them off. Wake up sheeple, you venerate the people who hate and lie to you.
They are native to extreme southeastern Oklahoma. They're supposed to be there.
Ship them to the southern Border
Growing up in Claremore during the 50's my cousins gathered turtle eggs to hatch/sell. They also found/hatched Alligator eggs. My dad drained a large pond near Skiatook and there was a monstrous gator in it. Gators are all over this state. Nothing new.
gators are all over a small portion of the southern part of the state
I’ve heard that, but I’ve yet to see one.
Didn’t know bout Skiatook, swear I saw one behind Spavinaw as a child.
Never knew this. 👍
Definitely seen one in river in Arkansas! Quit swimming!
Don't let them get to lake placid
Aww come on, I'm sure there is a sweet old widow who'd love to feed them😂
Went swimming in lake placid, hiked Whiteface mountain, and bobsled at the Olympic center. It is a real legend in NY. We're taught in upstate that it could travel lake to lake.
I use to own swamp property in Choctaw County. Gators were everywhere. People don't believe me. Glad to see this .
Oklahoma fire train poison is going to kill them all 🚬🫤
I believe. But they are not supposed to be that far north. We've quit hunting as a society . We don't trap anymore. We have become a docile society . I still trap with my 82 year old father , I'm 64. We trap beavers that ruin people's ponds and small lakes here in Texas. They are real pest. It's amazing what these beavers do in damage. They'll stop up creaks that ranchers depend on to water there cattle an sheep and goats. And or flood pastures. A few are great. But they can over whelm a ranch and farm sometimes and that is when we are called in. Gators can become a problem too if not controlled . When I was in Florida, people's pets would just disappear where they lived by lakes. Well I've seen that here as well. And its happening more often . No one hunts or traps anymore. Not like they used to. Animals are. Not endangered like we are being lead to believe. Just like the United States is not over populated like we were lead to believe . It was proven 2012 that we are only 5 to 8 percent populated . That there are vast areas in this land where there is nothing.
Ohhhh I believe you way from Cali…
@@jasonjohnson7925 I lived there 22 years.
@@notoes5443 no, I’m in Cali, and I believe you is what I’m saying. How long have you been seeing gators 🐊 out there?
Yes....let the not endangered predatory carnivors increase their numbers. What could go wrong?
So that the alligator army shall increase
Someone should drop some gators and crocs in the Rio Grande too
WHAT?!?!? I moved here from Florida and took me 2 years to stop automatically approaching a body of water cautiously - now I need to allow that caution to rear it's ugly head again? People lost their little dogs all the time to alligators in Florida!
"Confident somethings going on but not confident on what it is" haha most scientific quote every
They have no predators. Now if we released Jaguars ...
* I hear they have moved back to their SW, US habitat. Hope they don't bring their man eating habits with them. They can get pretty large.
Bull sharks could help 😂
I had a friend in Tecumseh who was a land owner. He swore back in the 1980's that he had at least one alligator living in his biggest stock pond. He told me on several occasions he had seen it while out inspecting his land. He passed away in the early 2000's.
He was right.
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Looks like he was tellin' the truth after all.
The gator or the land owner?
I live in OK and have a sasquatch and gator that wrestle and carry on all the time. You think they want to kill each other but they are really good friends.
Wow! I had no idea we had aligators in Oklahoma !it's nice to know that now. Are they anywhere by Talihina ?
Are you getting poison from the fire 🚬🤔
You should assume so. I believe there almost everywhere in the U.S. They can swim and walk where they want to.
Ive seen a rather large 1 south of Stuart Oklahoma,
Yes, there are some in the creeks that flow into Sardis Lake. I saw one in South Jackfork Creek in March of 2022.
@@garonkourt4204 are you serious?
It was part of their natural habitat before Europeans came over. Jaguars even were up here as far as south Texas.
Seen a huge black cat off 9A on lake eufaula twice. I thought it was a black panther. Game warden told my husband and I it was a jaguar
I'm more concerned about Tim's diarrhea after 5 sonic burritos
There have been gators in Oklahoma since I was a kid and before. We had polaroid photos when I was a teen of an alligator following our boat as we trolled fishing for Crappie on Keystone Lake. He was probably about six feet. Not HUGE, but not what you would expect on a lake in Oklahoma.
Had no idea alligator were that far out in the midwest.
Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. - Steve Irwin
there are alligators in the red river and in lake Texoma .
grew up in Madill, and the game warden brought one (dead) to HS Biology class circa 1976
Well, that's just great! I thought venomous snakes and feral hogs were all I had to worry about on the Cross Timbers trail!
@@blondhairblackstrat don't forget the meth heads !
Would recording the babies' cries and then playing the sound near traps facilitate the capture of more alligators?
I had a buddy that had a ranch in central Oklahoma, just north of Edmond. He had an alligator on his land. I saw him feed it once.
I learned something new today. I had no clue Oklahoma had gators!
Gators are good eating , what's the problem ?
That’s Choctaw country! Alligator in Choctaw is hachunchuba
Now move them to rio grande
Exactly why I don't swin in water i can't see through. Afraid of alligators or Jaws.
wont be visiting or spending my money in Oklahoma now...thanks to this information. Officially on the no visit list for water recreation
Myn family has lived an hunted this part of oklahoma for over a hundred years never heard of a allugator untill they were introduced after turning this place into wetlands.
F that! No way I’m living in any state with alligators in the wild. I’ll stick to my Rocky Mountain paradise at 9000 ft where nothing can eat you except mountain lions and bears. :)
when me catches em' me eats em as gator bites (mmm mmm good) and uses em' skins for my custom made bassetball and jazz-flute shoes.
I think the boarder rivers needs alligators
Hundreds of them.
Yes. Keep those Okies out of TX.
They are now in north Texas lakes, too. People just don't know! !! Good reason to carry a gun. People disappear in the lakes, now I figure gator got them. I'd never go on lakes again.
At the zoo it shows southeast Oklahoma is a natural home for them and has been for hundreds of years.
We need them on the BORDER
They already wearing green
There used to be gators in the Rio Grande up past Laredo. Hunting along with corporate agriculture and industry wiped them out.
What a stupid statement.
Let's hope alligators eat women and children who want a better life for themselves in the greatest country in the world.
Please do not procreate.
@@anthonybarber877 okay Anthony because ONLY women and children cross into the U.S. Only kind a loving people!
@@anthonybarber877 cross the border legally gators don't discriminate
This is the first time I have ever heard of them being in Oklahoma! I thought they only lived in a handful of the lower S.E. states.
Love news like this way more than made up complaints from politicians.
Dude i live in Delaware. And they are being found as far north as Maryland now! They basically hibernate under ice. And stick they're nose out to breath all winter. Pretty crazy.
@@jillconner5062 the ones in Maryland are released pets. The cold climate up north makes it uninhabitable for large reptiles, they are trying to make their way back to the south.
I grew up in Ardmore. In my early teens we had a family friend that lived just south of Lone Grove on a small farm. He had an alligator on his place that lived in his pond. On occasion it would venture up to the house in search of his chickens. He called the local game rangers several times to have it removed in that he worried about his kids. They kept telling him they could not do anything about it and to just watch his kids when they were out. After several calls and no action he finally went out to hunt for it. Once he found it he shot it, loaded into his pickup, and took it to the game rangers. They were about to arrest him for what he did until he reminded them of his calls to have the alligator removed and taken elsewhere. With that he left them with a dead alligator. I was told it measured over ten feet long.
A man's gotta do. What a man's gotta do.
@@reviewithme9913 at least one good thing can come from this if pythons try to get near this place, they would have to deal with the gators, and some juvenile pythons have been known to be eaten by gators
@@jamessparkman6604 Yeah!......shoes and luggage!
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@@libbyhobbs4637 do me a favor, leave the alligators and crocodiles that are native out of it the Burmese pythons on the other hand, are a different story just until they’ve been eradicated from Florida but in their own country, they have to be left well enough alone to rebound from extinction
If I see one on my land he's will be dead real soon
I saw one 30 years ago in Broken Bow Lake.
Their was an alligator that lived in man made lake in Las Colinas TX. I think he had been there ten years I think they captured him but he could still be there.
Tulsans/ North east Oklahomans: Hill people
Pan Handle Oklahomans: Plains people
Okc oklahomans: Urban people.
Southeast oklahomans: Swamp people
Southwest oklahomans: Semi desert people.
I'm from Delaware and they are finding gators in Virginia and Maryland now too!
Hope 1 gets joe. Just kidding. I'll never swim in the water again.
Im in Cecil county,Md...What area's have they found gators?
@@dwade6322I'm in Essex middle river but I've never heard of them being around but if I was swimming out millers island and saw one I'd probably shit myself lol we do have huge snapping turtles tho
I was hog hunting by Hayworth and one was laying out one the creek bank it was at least 8 ft long
Sonic breakfast burritos coming in clutch 😂
Lots of gators in East Texas too.
They are Lake Fork lake near Emory
With the up coming famine and financial collapse Okies will have food n hides!
That’s that Florida Gators defense! Running through OU offensive line.
I had no idea there were gators in Oklahoma, I just assumed it was too cold this far North for them.
why do we need gators in Oklahoma?
I would not if they spot black bear in northeast Oklahoma coming in from Arkansas.
OK that is cool. Oklahoma is really getting a lot of wildlife. We had a mountain lion attacking a farm goats yesterday. I saw a 3 foot bobcat. Walking down my driveway last week. He saw me stared a couple of minutes and walked on his way like I was the last thing on his mind. it was really something. I have deer in the backyard. A flock of 20 turkeys that wander in a couple of times a week. Not to mention the squirrels, possums, raccoons, armadillos, coyotes, and birds. I had not thought of alligators, but the red river runs right down into Louisiana, so I guess it’s not impossible. Anyway great story.
Sounds like you wont ever lack for means of a sweet meat Bbq...AND IM AVOUT TO GRILL A WHOLE TURKEY#
O, so that river must be their corridor north. What a surprise - alligators in OK!
Well, that's one more state I'll never go fishing or live in. It's a very stealthy animal, I would never be able to relax when outdoors,😱 if I even thought there was the slightest chance of a gator, crock, boa constrictor, python, anaconda, or panther being in the vicinity. like Florida, Lousiana, Mississippi, Georgia, &, the Carolinas. .Please, PLEASE, contain them in your own world and don't bring them into mine, okay? I would however like being on a team to capture such animals, and turn them into money in my pocket, food, boots, belts, luggage, vehicle interiors and fertilizer.
* Conrad Nelson, you forgot the Bigfoot season your Governor instituted, last year I believe.
a healthy gator population helps secure gator cowboyboots and gator handbags for future generations. they're doing god's work!
Another reason I am glad I left Oklahoma and moved to Arizona. We only have the vicious Jackalopes here.
In which bill was this pork rolled up in. You wanna study gators, come to Fla. They're bigger, faster, and eat more dogs than any other state.
It would be Just another day In Florida 🤷🏿♂️
Is Oklahoma the most northern range of Alligators? Kinda getting a shade close to the Mid Continent Cold Zone from November to April.
The old people of my personal family told us kid of one because it would sunbathe behind grand mas house. Now a Walmart in Grand Island ne. Cold have been someone's pet but loosing chicken and dogs didn't mean a lot. My cousin had to shoot a cougar when it killed his dog. Same neighborhood. He killed it.
And we’re paying how much to find out what is common knowledge‽ just like the mountain lions that have been here in southeast Oklahoma since the 60s‽ I guess I need to start a study to start sucking up some gravy money!
Yeah you'd think the gator season in LA. would last ast least 3 most.
They are not endangered.
But we are in danger!!!
Money spent on researching a alligator. I can tell you all you need to know about alligators
Im being smart, i just think its a waiste of tax payers money. They have been study to death. I guess this study just proves the last study.
Have your head on a swivel around them people! I'm from SC and they can run like a dog when they want! Saw one do it and almost wrecked my car! SC Lowcountry floods and it was in a small canal by the road miles away from the river!
Gators used to own the waterways of the south. Our forefathers hunted them out of the rivers and lakes cause they're dangerous and eat small kids and livestock and domestic animals. We banished them to the everglades etc and kept them out of waterways to protect the children etc. Now it's illegal to hunt them and they'll take back all the rivers and lakes again and nowhere will be safe for your kids to splash and swim. Put alligators ahead of our small children and their lives. We'll pay for our stupidity w lives of our children. So stupid to protect things that eat us.
I agree with this. They are more dangerous than people are saying.
Id worry more about childhood obesity and the fact kids don't play outside anymore, much less go swimming on their own.
We grew up swimming all over Florida in the 70s with alligators and nobody in my entire north Florida area ever had any problems. Alligators are really docile scavengers. Some are even tamed to know their owners. They are only found in the United States and are really a keystone species. They have a hard time surviving to adulthood and only 1 in 100 survives. They grow very slowly and are about the only animal to eat the venomous cottonmouth water moccasin snakes. More people are murdered in Oklahoma every month than have been bitten by alligators in American history.
It’s not illegal to hunt them . get proper hunting license and you’re good
@@robertreed7963 * I think that adult can handle the concerns that affect child obesity, as well as any other concerns that may present itself. The idea is to be informed of any and all dangers that may cause harm.
Who knew !? So is Oklahoma considered the Midwest??
You know the news woman is so stupid the most dangerous thing you can do is be holding a baby alligator 🐊 while it’s calling for it’s mom alligators are very strong and stealthy they can be right next to you and you won’t know it
All predators, need to be on McDonald’s menu.
All bears , alligators, crocodiles, lions.
If McDonald’s can make a fish go extinct because of a fish sandwich, maybe they can make our lakes and forests safer while we eat.
Been alligators in southern Oklahoma since the fifties. They were brought in to take out the cotton mouths in the ponds.
Sorry but not here in Kentucky and as far as I know none in Tennessee or Virginia, but I could be wrong. I remember after Katrina, there being a few found as far as Memphis, having been displaced by the flooding at the time.
Alligators need swamps and something to eat. If you have those two things gators will be there.
@@jollyjohnthepirate3168 Jolly,. Actually we have both swamps and food. We also have bitterly cold weather every winter. Sorry. I should have mentioned that earlier. Have a nice day folks.
@@garylefevers Alligators can tolerate cold weather. They poke their snouts through holes in the ice and go into suspended animation. So I don't doubt that they live in Southeast Oklahoma.
@@garylefevers every few years one or two gets spotted hanging in the river around memphis and that was a before Katrina thing too, just more got sighted around memphis after katrina, but they arent new to memphis.
I had no idea Oklahoma had alligators. I also never thought about it before.
@Sludge LOL. I live in Florida so I'm wary even near a puddle.
Go to Florida Louisiana and studying you can also study the pythons while y'all are there go live there but get rid of those things in Oklahoma before it's too late as a matter of fact I think you'll have already waited too late and it's too late
If you have any extras, I'll take one to put in my pond. I have plenty of invasive nutria to feed them.
Well, that’s another State I will not move to. They are things Nightmares are made of!!!!
There's a million of them in East Texas I'm sure they headed north
Some people buy them as pets. When they get to big to handle or feed the owners put them in a pond or lake.
Can we catch and eat them is what I want to know. As an Oklahoman I've ate gator n it's good.
Why propagate these killing machines.
I see by many of these comments, most people do not know Jack, about much of anything. The probably vote democrat.
Wonder if they would thrive in the Rio grande hmmm
I could have saved OK alot of money
I don’t think I want to go swimming in SE Oklahoma.
Well, that’s another State I will not move to. They are things Nightmares are made of!!!!
He gonna be on the shitter after those 5 burritos 😂😂😂
No Alligators up here in Alaska. So far.
And yet another reason you can count me out on noodling!!
Don’t think that little tent is going to help much.
They've been spotting more and more of them in Tennessee. They've expanded back to original habitat that they use to claim decades and decades ago before hunting and other factors drove them back down towards the southern coastal states. At least here in Tennessee they've been making their way up the Mississippi river.
Wrong, Yankee juveniles been releasing them up north for kicks.
i guess the next question is, where to avoid swimming
You'll got a grant from the government, you could have gone to Florida found out everything about gators. You're wasting taxpayers money.
"...wasting..."
Stealing !
I knew they were there. It's common knowledge alligators range into eastern Oklahoma but that for some reason is surprising to some people.
Yeah my tax dollars should've gone towards building a $500k missile to shoot down a balloon
You obviously don't know much about wildlife...but you made this statement so you must know everything.
That's because having gators in Oklahoma is way different than having gators in Florida. Duh. Our gators actually go through a type of hibernation when it's below freezing.
Hahaha camping in a tent in a gator ridden area. Smart
Put the alligators in the Rio Grand .
In Oklahoma? How do they survive the cold ass winters?
What’s to learn? Just shoot the damn things
Let them get big enough and move some to the Rio Grande. 👍
Put a few in the Rio Grand.
Are those good for boots, belts and wallets?
I had no idea alligators were in Oklahoma…I live in SC just for reference. 🐊
Hello 👋 how’re you doing?
Y’all got gators? I’m going to sc this summer.
*smallest ones
Journalism is dead ☠☠
dude, i use to swim in many mucky lakes when i was a kid. i live in the michigan- indiana area, close to lake michigan.
i remember when i was around 9 years old having fun, swimming in the lake, jumping off the dock and i saw these eyes glaring back at me and what looked like an alligator tail. i mentioned it to my parents and they told me it was just a muskrat or turtle....never went tubing again after that.
come to find out 15 years later that there have been cases of alligators swimming up the rivers and surviving the cold weather.
wild animals know how to adapt.
The range of the American Alligator is far up the Mississippi river drainage into Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Many years ago I saw an alligator on Barren Creek Polk County Arkansas; it flows into the Mountain Fork Little River in Oklahoma.
I was just a kid and no one believed me.
its actually further than that, as far north as st louis and southern illinois. its a rare sight to see them that far up but it does happen.
@@michellebrown7714 at a museum when I was a child they said gators were in southern Illinois swamps
@@michellebrown7714 * Along with the Bull Shark.
* When the Corp. of Engineers straighten the White River in Ark. years ago, and ruined it, IMO, they airlifted a number of alligators out of the state. Our government sure knows how to waste money and ruin habitat.
I grew up in Idabel McCurtain County, cruised all over that county back in the 60s and 70s never came across any except at the feed store. They had some babies there , one niped my finger, maybe 68. Every weekend all over Broken Bow lake, never saw any there thank goodness.
Perhaps the "native population" was released into the area around the same time. It was a popular thing to order baby alligators back in that time I heard, then they grew up and people would just let them go.
Unlike crocodiles, and camen , alligators have evolved to with stand colder temperatures, if the surface freezes, you can see their snouts sticking out of the ice to breathe, they are very resilient