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Mother Alligator Assists Hatchlings

Abby Parks By Abby Parks
Published Runtime 3:09

Watch an amazing, heart-warming video that showcases a mother alligator who tends to a nest of eggs with baby gators emerging. In time-lapse, we watch her spend hours retrieving each newborn one by one, placing them in a shallow pool of water.

 

 

Abby Parks

About the Author

Abby Parks

Abby Parks has authored a fiction novel, theatrical plays, short stories, poems, and song lyrics. She's recorded two albums of her original songs, and is a multi-instrumentalist. She has managed a website for folk music and written articles on singer-songwriters, folk bands, and other things music-oriented. She's also a radio DJ for a folk music show. As well as having been a pet parent to rabbits, birds, dogs, and cats, Abby loves seeking sightings of animals in the wild and has witnessed some more exotic ones such as Puffins in the Farne Islands, Southern Pudu on the island of Chiloe (Chile), Penguins in the wild, and countless wild animals in the Rocky Mountains (Big Horn Sheep, Mountain Goats, Moose, Elk, Marmots, Beavers).
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