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Old 07-01-2013, 01:27 AM
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Originally Posted by swamp snorkler View Post
They have a few, my Dad's good friend has an alligator fram in Gibson, LA. He donated them to the ZOO quite a few years back. If they were in the wild they would be dead by now. He picked the eggs out of the wild and hatched them. Aliigators farmers take the eggs and hatch them, when they get to a certain legnth they have to to return half of what they took to the wild.
Actually they return 17% back to the wild as this is the natural survival rate of 4' alligators.
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