SC - fish and game ...

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    And we have a crocodile species here in S. Fla., though they're pretty
scarce. I doubt very seriously that there's any noticeable difference in the
taste of the meat.
    BTW, gators very effectively recovered from their endangered status, and
have returned to their traditional role of annoyance, pest, and consumer of
small, yappy animals. Not a week goes by that some local snowbird out being
walked by their 4 legged annoyance has said annoyance nailed & devoured by a
gator. There have been a few cases of people going into the canals trying to
rescue poor fluffy, which just surprises the hell out of the gators. Dinner
so seldom comes a-calling . . .
 If this keeps up, they're going to have to expand the hunting season and
bag limits before the gators eat all the poodles & chihuahuas. The Haitians
will starve if the gators wipe out the stray animal population . . .

    Sieggy

- ----- Original Message -----

> Elaine Koogler wrote:
> >
> > Alligators are a new world phenomenon, I believe.  When I lived in the
South
> > Pacific, I was told that crocs are found in Asia and Africa, whereas the
'gator
> > is found in the New World.
> >
> > Kiri
>
> I'm pretty sure that there's an alligator species in China, but that in
> the rest of Asia crocodiles are more the norm. So, strictly speaking,
> they are Old World too, if not well-known to Europeans in peroid.
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy