A video showing a jaw-dropping alligator at a golf course in Florida has surfaced on Facebook, where it is seen strolling across Duran golf course in Melbourne leaving people in amazed and scared situation.
According to news website UPI, the video was shot by Nicole Latner, an employee at the golf course. She spotted the gator on Thursday, making its way across the greens between two lakes, and immediately recorded a video.
“Another day in Florida… wildlife on the golf course,” she can be heard saying in the clip, which was shared on Facebook by the Duran Golf Club.
The video has gone viral, with over 1,000 viewing times on Facebook and collecting numerous mixed responses.
According to Latner, there were golfers on the course when the gator made an appearance, but everyone maintained a safe distance from the predator.
American alligators are apex predators that feed on fish, reptiles, birds and small mammals. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Conservation Commission, alligator appear from southeast Oklahoma and east Texas on the western side of their range to North Carolina and Florida in the east.
This is not the first instance that a gator has been spotted at a Florida golf course. An alligator, nicknamed Chubbs, is a frequent at the Buffalo Creek Golf Course and makes regular appearances there.
