Bodycam video provided by Pesky Critters Wildlife Control shows the enormous reptile lunging and growling at the trappers who were called out to the Homestead Sports Complex early Thursday morning.
The team was quickly dispatched, and after a battle caught on camera, trappers captured the gator at around 3:30 a.m.
The incident comes just days after a man lost his arm to a similar-sized alligator in Port Charlotte.
Pesky Critters warns that alligators are highly active right now, and Florida residents need to be aware and alert in grassy areas and near bodies of water.
“Alligators are native to Florida so anywhere that you have freshwater, you have a high likelihood of encountering an alligator so whether that’s a lake, a canal, a pond, a river,” says George Reynaud, an officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.
“And the most important thing is to learn how to coexist with an alligator. So just because I see an alligator doesn’t mean that it poses a threat, or it has to be removed.”
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