Friday, July 30, 2010

Alligator feeding frenzy caught on tape

A fisherman in Georgia caught a lot more than fish on camera when he recorded hundreds of alligators in a rare "feeding frenzy."

Earlier this month, fisherman Ray Cason headed out on his boat at the Stephen C. Foster State Park in the Okefenokee Swamp for a fresh catch - but clearly, the alligators got there first.



So instead of his fishing rod, Cason grabbed his camera and caught the feeding frenzy over mudfish, also known as bowfin. A manager at the southeast Georgia park says the alligators went their separate ways eventually.

A state wildlife biologist says this kind of cooperative feeding - in which the alligators hunt together as a group - only happens once every three or four years.

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