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  • 2016-05-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Giant Alligator Spotted on Florida Golf Course (en)
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  • A video purportedly showing a giant alligator walking across a golf course in Florida appeared in May 2016: Golfer Charles Helms took the video at the Buffalo Creek Golf Club in Palmetto, Florida. While it has been shared by several credible news sources, such as Time and The Guardian, many viewers were skeptical about the footage and claimed that it was a CGI alligator. However, the footage — like the alligator — is real. Course employee Wendy Schofield said that the enormous reptile frequents the golf course and has become the club's unofficial mascot: It is not uncommon to spot alligators roaming the golf courses in Florida. Another huge alligator earned fifteen minutes of social media fame when it strolled across a golf course in Englewood, Florida, in March 2015: The size of the alligator featured in the footage at Buffalo Creek Golf Club is unknown, but Schofield estimated that the animal could be up to sixteen feet long. According to Yale ecologist and large predator expert Adam Rosenblatt, however, it's probably not that large: As of 2014, the longest known credible record for an American alligator is 14 feet, 9.25 inches (450.0cm) long. (en)
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