Taking these pictures was riskier than I intended. Anyone crucial to the success of MAP who would like to take alligator close-up photos before the launch, please let me know. I'll give you nice prints of these instead.
Wildlife is abundant at Kennedy Space Center.
There
is a pond full of alligators near to SAEF II, the facility at Kennedy Space
Center in which MAP is being prepared for launch.
I was taking a photograph of the calm and restful alligator
at the right when another alligator climbed out of the pond and came straight towards
me.
I never understood if it was driven by hunger or curioustiy.
I did not see this alligator until I put my camera down. When I saw
her, I jumped away, and the alligator hunched down, as in the photo at
the left. Yes, this does imply that we were once much closer together than in these pictures.
Dissapointed that I noticed her in time, I suppose,
she walked back to the pond.
How do Alligators hunt?