The Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge is located west of Boynton Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service on February 19 recorded a video of an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) crossing a road in the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. The question is why did the alligator cross the road? Well, to enjoy the feast that it was carrying in its mouth, a turtle of unknown species.
The USFWS posted the video on its Facebook page and said alligators “treat turtles like nature’s hard candy.” In the video, the alligator crosses the road fairly nonchalantly, seemingly ignoring the truck in front of it as well as behind it as it casually saunters across.
While it’s sad for the turtle, the alligator has to eat!
The Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge is located west of Boynton Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida. It encompasses 145,188-acres and is also a water conservation area. The refuge includes 145,000 acres of Everglades habitat. In addition to the American alligator and a variety of lizards and snakes, the refuge is home to a variety of turtles, including the Florida red-bellied cooter or Florida redbelly turtle (Pseudemys nelsoni ) coastal plain cooter (Pseudemys floridana), peninsula cooter (Pseudemys peninsularis) , Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina), Florida softshell turtle (Apalone ferox) striped mud turtle (Kinosternon baurii) common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) and common or Eastern musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus).
