Nickudu,

As a matter of fact, I have seen Florida deer. How do you know this is from south Florida or the Keys? There are gators throughout the state.

Anyway, this particular gator is about 3.5 deer carcasses long, so if he is only am 8.5 footer (which really is a medium sized gator) that deer is only ~ 30" long. Now I am 20" wide, my neighbors Boxer (medium size dog) is about 36" long, etc, etc. It really doesn't matter.

I was mightily impressed you knew it was a gator though. How did you know?

ASS_CLOWN

Snout shape + the fact that it's chomping a deer and the thread says "in the states". Not many crocs in the states...

My good friend Grant calls this, "loading up a moose!" I imagine it is slightly uncomfortable.

TheCoolGuy,

IF these pictures are from Florida it could easily have been a crocodile, in which case the snout shape is about the only way you could have identified it (due to the range).

ASS_CLOWN

Not really, that doesn't really look like Florida's Everglades to me.

A possible Helicopter photo. Look at the water surface and the inexplicable angle of photo #2. It may also explain how they caught this fellow in the act, as well. Quite a photo.

ASS Clown:

I should clarify something. When I said that the caiman I saw were as big sometimes as the crocs I saw in Zimbabwe, I meant in length. The African croc was much bigger across than the caiman which is very narrow (and has an even more pointy snout than the African croc)

ASS Clown:

I read the link. I have to repeat what I saw. I'm not arguing with you. I know what I saw and it was in the company, variously, of my father, San Blas Indians and in Cuba, it was an American construction foreman who invited me to shoot (off a bridge) using a construction shack rifle. I saw crocs in Zimbabwe and I still say these caiman were every bit as big sometimes. Certainly they ranged well over the lengths given in the website you referred me to. OK, I'm contradicting a website but that's what I saw.