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 Digging up alligator eggs for incubation

An alligator will lay approximately 40 eggs in a nest mound. She will guard the nest diligently and challenge any intruder. Fred Antonio (general curator of the Central Florida Zoological park) spotted me (guarded) while I dug the eggs up for incubation for educational departments.

Under the watchful eye of the female who was constantly devising [...]