Environmental Graffiti

Albino Alligators

They are cream while others are cocoa; they are chalk while others are (exceptionally dark) cheese- these reptilian oddities are the albinos of the cold-blooded world. But does their condition cause them to perform differently in the great Darwinian game of life-and-death?

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Predator Vs Prey

Predation. It's meat and drink to anyone interested in our obsessive documenting of the natural world. Maybe it has to do with parallels with the culture we live in, where many seem only too eager to prey on perceived weaker individuals for their own prosperity. You'll doubtless enjoy the following pics – while we offer a verdict on what the animals mean culturally. We kept expecting the voice of Donald Trump or Allan Sugar to declair: "You're fired!"

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What’s That Coming out of the Sewer? Is it an Alligator?!!!

1935. Two boys are busy clearing East 123rd Street of February snowfall by shovelling it down an open manhole. Next thing, they spot something large and reptilian lurking in the icy waters below. With much effort and no little rope, they manage to lasso and heave up a seven-foot alligator. Once at street level, the alligator begins snapping its sizable set of jaws, so the boys, being boys, proceed to beat it to death with their shovels.

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Dead “King” Gator To Be On Display In Georgia

Image from Steve Beger Oscar the alligator, who died at around this time last year, isn’t quite done terrorizing the populace with his 14-foot frame just yet. Park rangers have determined that to honor the beast, they’re going to have him on display, in skeletal form, in a [...]

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