Florida residents and visitors might expect to see the occasional alligator on a golf course or beach and perhaps even lizards falling from trees now and then, but a recent wildlife encounter in the ...

Alligator sightings are pretty common on Southern golf courses - see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Also, here. (RIP, Timmy the Turtle.) But here’s one that deserves distinction.

An estimated 1.3 million alligators live in Florida, inhabiting every one of Florida's 67 counties. Floridians might encounter them in swamps, rivers, ponds and, of course, lakes. They eat fish, ...