Wildlife officials seeing growing number of alligators in Chattahoochee - and they’re staying

[@michaelgomez3044]

This entire report is garbage. Gators are native to GA.

[@chi773guy]

In 1996 and 1997, I was stationed at Warner Robins Air Force Base which is in middle Georgia. There were indeed alligators on our base. This story is a bit misleading because it is coming off as saying that alligators are not native to middle Georgia. But what I believe they are trying say is that far up the Chattahoochee River alligators are less common, and now are becoming more frequently seen.

[@SaveUsfromHarris]

@@chi773guy That is possible Gators have been spotted as far North as metro Atlanta on the very past. I think your right but the video is spoon feeding as obviously if you live in Georgia than you know. You can go back in weather history and see many years where it didn't snow. Its just a cycle and it will snow again in Georgia people think it's over and it will never snow. The chance of it snowing in Georgia is already very low it's Georgia for crying out loud.

[@thabigshow69]

My uncle was stationed there thru the 70s 80s 90s and he said they'd shoot them off tarmac to keep planes from hitting them .there all in the swamps and rivers all the way up to Covington ga . I seen one one morning at day break driving North on 247 leaving wr and it was 19 ft long had crawled up outa that swamp between smileys and Krystal's it had been ran over and messed up several people's cars ,the police had to dispatch it . That same are since the 70s several people had crashed down in swamp and they were never found people always said that the big gator got them the gator I seen was 4 ft wide and jus did touch white line to white line when it was a 2 lane . That old bridge where fisherman used to hang out in the 70s and fish and down there on banks jus slightly north of Krystal's had several fisherman snatched off bank in the 70s early 80s .

[@way75mit9]

100% correct Scout Lake and Luna Lake on Robins AFB have always had a gator population, The Ocmulgee River runs directly behind the base less than a mile from the flight line in some areas, Houston County Ga, is home for the base !!!

[@ngi638]

Thank you for clarifying. It’s probably because those snakes are taking their territory and also less natural predators. I have heard they are in mid Alabama as well but were brought in by people.

[@daisyle1203]

I live in AL, alligators have been in certain areas for a very long time. You could see the muddy river banks with their footprints and tail tracks in some rivers when I was a young teen in the early 70s, Lake Eufala, Warrior River, Spanish Fort Mobile areas. Alligators are a part of life in Southern coastal states, so are Moccasins and Eastern Diamond Backs. When you begin seeing young palms in the woods, cypress bogs and Spanish moss you're in their territory.

[@johnjapuntich3306]

Very misleading video. Sad to see that some of our DNR officers are so misinformed. Alligators are native to South Georgia all the way up to the Fall Line, which happens to run right through Muscogee County. Alligators haven't "migrated" from Florida as is suggested in the video. They've always been right on the edge of "middle Georgia".

[@SaveUsfromHarris]

Alligators are native to Georgia... they live in Georgia this has nothing to do with climate change. Saying the gators are migrating north from Florida is weird.

[@Guy-t5b]

I agree - and not just Georgia….. alligators are now common behind the Mississippi River levee as far north as Tunica and Friars Point….in some areas DNR conservation efforts reintroduced the alligators along parts of the Mississippi River and surrounding areas after their populations declined significantly in the 20th century. Over-hunting and habitat loss led to a steep drop in alligator numbers, pushing them close to extinction in some parts of their natural range. Conservation efforts, particularly starting in the 1970s, helped their numbers rebound. In states like Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, wildlife agencies introduced alligator management programs, which included reintroducing them into suitable habitats within their historic range. These programs focused on regulated hunting, habitat protection, and some reintroductions to areas where populations had been depleted. These conservation efforts and protections under laws like the Endangered Species Act, alligator populations have now stabilized and EXPANDED, allowing them to naturally repopulate parts of the Mississippi River (and other areas) and surrounding ecosystems. But to your point, I think global warming is a cop out blame….as population of the alligators grows they move looking for suitable reproduction areas and food sources. Who knows 1000 years ago their natural range may have been much further north.

[@tringuyen7519]

Muscogee county river deputies would disagree with you as evidenced by video. Right?

[@jason5523-r5m]

@saveusfromharris I used to go SKIING in georgia. Sky valley. Now, it's been closed 20+ years. Why? Climate change. Stop lying. The gators will keep going farther north as long as deep freezes don't occur.

[@Melissa-gc1hz]

South Carolina too!

[@kristenb5177]

support made in the USA

[@randyjax09]

Lifelong Floridian here. As long as you’re responsible with your children & pets near the water, alligators are pretty easy to coexist with. Just be responsible.

[@misguidedangel6550]

You dont find that weird that u can't take ur child's or pets near the water?

[@randyjax09]

@ Like I said, I’ve lived here in FL my whole life, and there are gators in nearly every body of water in the state. You just have to be cautious, remain alert, and don’t mess around in areas where large gators have been seen.

[@jbeast80rb]

Like Georgia don’t have the okefenokee swamp

[@tyrongkojy]

Do NOT pet the swamp puppies. They're cute, I get it, and can be friendly, but they can just as easily bite your face off. You also do NOT want them used to humans. They WILL eat someone's dog, or grandma, eventually. Stay away, admire the cute from afar. Like a bison. Don't go near the bison. Stay back.

[@donpeters9849]

They're gettin' the hell away from those bastard pythons in Florida.

[@JackieOwl94]

They’ve always been in GA. It’s just that the river is being cleaned up so that more prey is nearby.

[@lesawilkes5673]

Probably running for their lives from the 20ft pythons that have taken over in Florida.......

[@mcbam989]

Son got nightcrawlers and bevs in the same fridge

[@reedwright301]

Is there a problem?

[@rickyrishel8198]

Hell I keep bait in my refrigerator with what else

[@misguidedangel6550]

What is bevs?

[@queenofthebronx]

Drinks, beverages, sodas​@@misguidedangel6550

[@chrisrobco2003]

@@reedwright301that’s a health code violation

[@charlespeterson3877]

Don Johnson let Elvis go and he went and raised a family 😮

[@daisyle1203]

States that have had alligators for decades, TX, LA, MS, AL, FL, GA, SC, NC. Visit areas with fresh water in these states, you will see alligators.

[@tarkansas2788]

You left out Arkansas

[@SaveUsfromHarris]

@@daisyle1203 More like for millennia they have been where you said for thousands and thousands of years.

[@daisyle1203]

@@SaveUsfromHarris ​ True, but now human populations are higher and more come into contact with alligators, FL residents especially. May there be more Trump voters, hurricanes and alligators to send entitled liberal northerners back to icy winters.

[@SaveUsfromHarris]

@@daisyle1203 This definitely can be the case for sure. But mis information such as in this video is an example of spoon feeding globalists.

[@cathygentry505]

A few years ago there were gators in the rivers on 75 north around the T/A truck stop area.

[@johnskibajr5691]

Alligators do not "haunt" habitants. It looks like they are returning to where they used to be.

[@LeatherneckJoe133]

I live on the outer banks of North Carolina in kill devil Hills we’ve seen alligators here and we are only 60 miles south of Virginia, there’s more and more sightings of them every year..

[@PeterMoss54321]

Merchants Millpond State Park in Gatesville, NC has alligators.

[@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks]

Dude, i want gators up here in cherokee. I love those guys. Such adorable smiles. Let them stay, tis not concerning. Just know that they can be dangeros like any large animal.

[@misguidedangel6550]

Just like the pythons in south Florida, let them stay this is their home now. Pythons been living in the everglades darn near 40 years I reckon

[@Carnutzjoe]

You may not believe in climate change but the insurance companies do. And they are pulling out of coastal areas as fast as they can.

[@n00206]

Folks seem confused. Nobody is saying gators aren’t native to Georgia. It’s unusual to have them that far north in the river. And there is no path from there to the swamp. That’s why the people they interviewed kept talking about the gators going back to Florida. That’s where they came from.

[@ExpeditionNomadicAdventures]

Next will be the Burmese Phytons.

[@CedarSproutHomestead]

They used to be there . Were hubted or killed to near extinction. Getting really numerous in FL and been spreading back to original range.

[@LoneWolf42389]

See, what happened was... A long time ago, Some Florida University students wanted to one-up Georgia University and set two small gators loose in the river for the future expansion of Gator Nation. The apex gators then heard the song "Let's get it on" by Al Green ( I believe), started a family, invited some other gator friends up to visit because Florida is over populated and is targeted by Hurricanes. And, today, gators control the Chattahoochee River; and, in a few more years, Georgia will be the second State taken, held, and occupied by the Florida Gators.👍👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shacknastyray4429]

Those Gators are using the transfer portal to come to Georgia

[@CCTH2221-lp2zj]

😛

[@jimmybrock6593]

There also a few in lake Hartwell in north east Georgia .😮😊

[@brianmoore1164]

In the last 40 years, we have successfully increased the populations of dear, beaver, muskrat, herrons, etc. It is very natural for the predator population to increase right along with it. If you take a look back in history, those waters were always home to gators.

[@larkt6693]

Wow they are leaving Florida too insurance is getting insane … smart reptiles. 😊😊😊

[@HeartsOfDarkness]

“They are dangerous creatures. They will kill you.” Couldn’t agree more regarding humans, our fellow man. If you leave the gators alone, they will leave you alone. Unlike people, people are always trying to fu@k with you.

[@atlsongbyrd6084]

🙅🏻‍♀️ I don’t go into that water anyway! Never understood why people did.

[@alabamatechwriter6959]

HISTORY : Gators have always been native to the south. Also, as much as the weather may be warmer, the large invasive snakes in Florida may be chasing the gators north since little can compete with them here.

[@billydamnit]

I didn't know beaver was fattening. I've been eating it for years.

[@dhand34]

Cajuns aren’t skeered of them. We used to swim with them all the time

[@KennethGreenCMP]

To let folks know we have them north of Florida in South Carolina too. Oh no, call the local cops, we got a hot one here.

[@brittpereira2600]

I seen gators in Georgia over 20+ years ago

[@apexone5502]

Do they think gators ex8st in Florida, skip GA, AL, and MS, and out of nowhere exist in LA?

[@Horseman7621]

Call Troy and forget about it.

[@nikoqaddadeh3238]

Humans are NOT prey for alligators. They prefer smaller prey. Crocodiles, that is different. Confrontation between gators and people are caused by people.. Mess with their nests. Swim in their water. Try and pet a wild one, or like it has happened here, some dummy thought they could fight a gator. Stupid humans who walk their little dogs by canals, or let them swim, cause dogs to be attacked. I am in Florida, and have gators in the canal behind my home. I respect them, and they don't bother me. When I lived on the west coast, Sea Lions and humans had bad interactions, sharks too. Pretty much always started by humans, and NO it is NOT climate change, it is humans encroaching on an animals territory, usually by over building, destroying food sources, or contaminating the environment.

[@warren-freshoffthevinemedia]

I kayak and fish in south Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Gators are all over the place. Like most animals, if you don't do anything to attract or antagonize them, they are not likely to bother you. Don't take your dog with you. Don't clean fish upstream of your campsite. Don't walk along grassy edges of rivers or ponds at sunrise or sunset. And for God's sake, don't try to approach their nests or feed them.

[@bobbysays]

Not a big deal, leave the Alligators alone. We have a serious over population of people, do something about that

[@sleeplessaquarius]

I agree .

[@VoteForBukele]

Don’t worry. That’ll be reversed soon enough.

[@hughwestbury2102]

Gators have been common below Columbus for decades, are they now common upstream? I have seen one in Goat Rock but only one.

[@richardowens9061]

Great! We are definitely going to need some more game animals, as the US crumbles to dust under fascism. Learn some gator recipes.

[@sandyware5043]

Well, there you go!!! Gator nuggets.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ninetiesheathen]

Just wait until the crocs start moving now that is going to be a problem.

[@BudaKhan420]

Gators are just doing what everybody else is trying to do and that’s live their life.

[@joewoodchuck3824]

They'll be in Tennessee next. Don't tell my wife who is quite afraid of them.

[@slol144]

Already there, news reports last year in Memphis about their migration. As for here in GA, sightings with pics from the 70's just south of Peachtree City. Same place where the occasional Black Bear show up causing mass hysteria amongst the soccer/lacrosse moms

[@woodstream6137]

Looking for an insurance payout.... 😊

[@joewoodchuck3824]

@@woodstream6137 How is that relevant?

[@woodstream6137]

@joewoodchuck3824 sorry, just a little dark humor. Personally, i don't go in the water anywhere.

[@SaveUsfromHarris]

@@slol144 That's because someone put it there. Not because it was "living and thriving there".

[@woo-g]

2:23 there aint no beavers 🦫 in Georgia thats upstate NY.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

I ain't going down the Chattahoochee!

[@JimGrimes-w6f]

There is alligators in south Carolina and Kentucky

[@debcarsonart]

Are they warm blooded or partially warm blooded?

[@PeterMoss54321]

Alligators are cold blooded, but they can survive cold temperatures. I have seen pictures of their snouts sticking out of the ice in a frozen over pond in South Carolina.

[@EdA-qh7qr]

We have alligators in north Carolina why wouldn't there be alligators in Georgia they are a lot farther south

[@floridamanfishes9085]

People are getting ridiculously dumb 🤦‍♂️

[@TheTibetyak]

"Migrated from Florida". Put on a bus as an illegal and shipped to Georgia?

[@FuzzyWuzzy75]

Maybe they are just trying to get away from human over population in Florida? I can't fault them for that. I know the feeling here in North Carolina.

[@cynthiagraziadei3096]

Take alligators off the endangered species list.

[@Boon-dang]

Well Goergia here in Central Florida we call them Warer Chicken.....Kill it and Grill or fry it...Tastes like Chicken 🐔

[@daviddemastus9267]

They've always existed in Georgia.

[@jordanmeija7384]

WAY DOWN YONDER ON THE CHATTAHOOCHEE, DONT CALL THE ALIGATOR BIG MOUTH, TIL YOUVE CROSSED THE RIVER.......

[@cathygentry505]

Just sound of. DALTON GA

[@johnmorganjr769]

Cool !! 🐊

[@ChrisPrice-z8o]

I need financial aid

[@CheVonettaMathis]

Don't we all 🤣 , what's that gotta do with the Gators? Dude on every channel begging. Go get a job bum 😅

[@SaveUsfromHarris]

@@ChrisPrice-z8o Revoke your citizenship if your an American. Flee to Mexico and then cross the boarder but hurry up tho befor Trump gets in office.

[@SaveUsfromHarris]

@@ChrisPrice-z8o Revoke your citizenship if your an American. Flee to Mexico and then cross back over here but hurry up tho befor Trump gets in office.

[@Brenda-lg4dl]

For goodness sake they have all been there stop making it a big deal 😂😂😂

[@mclmm6773]

I mean they are all over Augusta lol.

[@creaturafauna]

Stop Global Weather!

[@elgatoblue17]

Maybe they will eat the nasty Politicians. As a child I was scared of those red eels lurking and poking their heads up.

[@Steve-yo4ld]

Guess yt thinks harvesting is a bad thing! They keep deleting this...👍

[@jpistheguyjesusloves8234]

They always say they brought the alligators here how about since I was born in Florida it seems like about 100 million people have moved here in the past 50 years. They say the gators almost got extinct in the 60s.- well I don’t believe that for a second there is so much dense swamp in Florida and when it’s cold out, it seems like the alligators don’t even have to come up for air too often. You could never get them all, however the gators nay be moving to where there’s less people- I’m thinking about it ! Lol Also, how about this fitting in with the book of revelation during the great tribulation the wild animals are going to be attacking those who didn’t get raptured 🙏🏽🇺🇸🇮🇱🌎

[@CedarSproutHomestead]

We swim with them in FL . Everyone will be fine

[@carenspencer-smith2921]

Notes from Florida: don’t walk your dogs near gator habitats. Especially, don’t let your kids walk dogs near gator habitats (dogs are faster). Don’t try to kick a gator who has your dog in its mouth unless you want to trade your foot for your dog. Don’t take dogs on SUPs or kayaks in rivers or lakes with gators. That’s all - have fun!

[@kharris0465]

Don't get eaten.

[@Bigsky1886]

Ridiculous,😂

[@mfcobb1]

Hey, let put more predators around us. Let's breed more mountain lions and release them.

[@jamaicasysbm2580]

Suppose it was Burmese pythons

[@phillipswain4942]

Swim at your own risk now

[@way75mit9]

Someone needs to learn geography, Because Columbus and Muscogee County and the river their speaking of is over 100 miles west of Middle Georgia, The cities of Macon and Warner Robins are directly centered in the middle of the State of Georgia nowhere near the Chattahoochee River, and gators have always been in the middle of the state !!!!

[@Bigsky1886]

They are coming from Mexico

[@johndoe-ln4oi]

Let's say it together, kids- It's global warming!!!! Booooooo!!!!!

[@physics2817]

Leave the Gators alone…Sheesh!

[@lesliepropheter5040]

MAGA looking for a place to hang out

[@SaveUsfromHarris]

@@lesliepropheter5040 What you don't want to "Make America Great Again"?

[@jimjohnson2071]

There good eatin... they taste just like chikin!