“I worry about the kids,” said Jack Kilian, who raised concerns over alligators in the Jackson Bend neighborhood to the Huntsville City Council at Thursday’s meeting. “The parents, we can train (to avoid alligators). The kids, they don’t understand.'
“That’s our fear is that we’d lose a kid or lose somebody from our neighborhood because we didn’t do anything ,” he said.
Residents have been documenting alligator movements and behavior for months, Kilian said. At least three alligators have been identified – an 11-foot long male, a 7-foot female and a young alligator that’s much smaller.But alligators have been approaching yards of homes more often in recent weeks and appear to have become acclimated to living around humans, Kilian said. The 7-foot female alligator, Kilian said, remained in the yard at one house for two days before leaving.
Experts also say that alligators typically shy away from humans and are more interested in preying on small animals for food. But at least one alligator has become accustomed to the presence of humans that they are no longer deterred from being around them. At that point, the presence of alligators can become more problematic.
Conservationists have talked with Jackson Bend residents and traveled to Huntsville to review the situation, Hamilton said. The rise and fall of water levels in the ponds is likely an influence on the presence of alligators, Hamilton said, and it makes it difficult when conservationists come to assess the situation and the alligators can’t be found.A man said an alligator attacked and killed his Golden Retriever near Haysland Road in May.
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