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Lake Eva, located west of Polk County Road 557, is on the north side of the city of Lake Alfred, Florida. This lake is somewhat kidney-shaped and has a surface area of 20.5 acres (83,000 m 2 ). Lake Eva in inside the Lake Alfred city limits and is 380 feet (120 m) west of Polk County Road 557.
The Okeeheelee Nature Center is a little museum of natural Florida. There are aquariums and displays, with many reptiles including: turtles, snakes and alligators. There is a wooden boardwalk/porch that encircles the center, and the whole center is wheelchair-accessible.
The largest and most alligator-infested lake in the state has more than 9,000 alligators confirmed to be living in it, with another 21,000 estimated to be lurking in the same water.
It is one of the two extant species in the genus Alligator, and is larger than the only other living alligator species, the Chinese alligator. Adult male American alligators measure 3.4 to 4.6 m (11.2 to 15.1 ft) in length, and can weigh up to 500 kg (1,100 lb), with unverified sizes of up to 5.84 m (19.2 ft) and weights of 1,000 kg (2,200 lb ...
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded to reports on Monday of a large gator swimming at Hillsboro Beach
Shown is a water-level view of a wild alligator in Florida. If the alleged Lake Erie alligator, first spotted on Aug. 4, is still in the lake water as winter approaches, it's chances of survival ...
Perhaps no other invasive species has attracted as much media attention as Burmese pythons in Florida, particularly after spectacular photographs and eyewitness accounts of struggles between native alligators and these snakes were released. Burmese pythons have voracious appetites and have been found to eat animals ranging in size from wrens to ...
With Lake Erie having nearly 10,000 square miles of surface water, it’s difficult to guess what may show up next. The reality is if it’s an invasive species, like an alligator or piranha ...