Scientists Document ‘Opportunistic’ Alligators Eating Sharks
It’s a dog-eat-dog world out there, or in the case of the southeastern United States, it’s an alligator-eat-shark kind of a world, according to an unsettling new study from Kansas State University scientists. The American alligator, also known as Alligator mississippiensis, is an “opportunistic feeder,” which is exactly what it sounds like. These gators prefer…