Feb 25, 2020
From Top to Bottom of the Food Chain - January 2020 Alligators are near the top of the Everglades food chain... until they are not. This ‘gator was alongside the road between Big Cypress and Immokalee. He had evidently been hit by a car and made it to the side of the road to die. It must have happened overnight, because when we came by in the morning, his carcass was already bloated, but his skin had not deteriorated sufficiently for the black buzzards to begin tearing him apart. MWM