July 14, 2018
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HILTON HEAD, S.C. – An alligator
has been caught on video eating a
small shark off the coast of South Carolina.
The Island Packet reported
that Kristen Poillon captured the video, which shows a 7-foot alligator
chomping on the bonnethead shark at Skull Creek.
The alligator was out of its
normal habitat and swimming in the saltwater of Skull Creek, a part of the
Intracoastal Waterway, according to the paper. Locals have reportedly given the
alligator the name “Charlie.”
“He doesn’t seem aggressive,”
Poillon told
the Hilton Head Island Packet. “He mostly shows up when the
fishing charter boats start back to their season because the eating is good for
him off the dock when they clean the fish.”
Scientists believe encounters
between sharks and alligators are becoming more frequent.
Brian Silliman, a Duke University
ecologist, wrote about it in a study on alligators appearing in saltwater.
“It’s the old norm, the way it
used to be before we pushed these species onto their last legs in hard-to-reach
refuges. Now, they are returning,” he wrote.
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