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2009-02-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Biologists plan to use magnets to repel crocodiles from urban areas

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "Hey, Jim Bob! Let's you and him go stick some magnets on that gator's head."
"No problemo. Here, hold my beer."

Pedantic note: most of the big toothy reptiles in Florida are alligators. The American crocodile is found in Central America, but rare in Florida except for a small population in the south.

Posted by SteveS 2009-02-26 00:36|| 2009-02-26 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Seems like a jolly good way to reduce personnel in the wildlife management department, to me. I'll sit this one out.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-02-26 05:16|| 2009-02-26 05:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I see, they want teenage mutant ninja gators.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2009-02-26 05:41|| 2009-02-26 05:41|| Front Page Top

#4 There is a shortage of ammunition in Florida?

Posted by john frum 2009-02-26 05:47|| 2009-02-26 05:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Taping magnets?

Hell, just use non-magnetic lead applied with a large caliber gun. Stick the manager into a cage with a gator and let him pick which method he'd prefer.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-26 08:44|| 2009-02-26 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Instead of a Magnet tied to their head, how about some lead inserted a little deeper. And the wild life officers wouldn't have to get as close.

Posted by Omoter Speaking for Boskone7794 2009-02-26 09:41|| 2009-02-26 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 I live in a community with "beaucoup" lakes, ponds and canal infested with 'gators. The one about 200 yards from me has a family of 6. The poppa is a big boy - about 10 feet and he likes to roam at night (as most gators) from one water source to another. If you are out playing golf on the course late at dusk it is not unusual to run into one walking down the cart path. The neat thing about this idea of putting a magnet on their heads is that maybe I could pick up his location on my GPS driven Sky Caddie and be able to avoid this particular hazard:)

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-02-26 11:14|| 2009-02-26 11:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe they meant a .44 Magnet applied to the forhaed of the critter?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2009-02-26 12:12|| 2009-02-26 12:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Just remember we are talking American crocodiles here not gators. Problem gators are handled by trappers that are allowed to sell off the gator parts. Crocs are covered by the ESA and being endangered you can't off them. So IIRC correctly there was one female croc that kept showing up at a Fort Meyers golf course. The problem was there was no place far enough away she could be relocated to that she wouldn't find her way back.
Of course if they let me start a IR fire ant control program way back when at turkey point they would be "threatened" by now.
As for paying them with beer, that is the preffered medium of payment for most reptile people. My buddy Joe would do it for beer, see: http://www.natselections.com/index.htm

Posted by Don Vito Anginegum8261 2009-02-26 14:50|| 2009-02-26 14:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey, its on the HISTORY CHANNEL, OR IIRC WILL BE THIS WEEK???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-26 23:01|| 2009-02-26 23:01|| Front Page Top

#11 "MONSTERQUEST" = "MONSTERS", on HISTORY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-26 23:01|| 2009-02-26 23:01|| Front Page Top

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