Alligator Question (Jackson, Pearl, Pearl River: home, shopper, swimming pool)

[grasshopper_60619]

I want to know how is the population of alligators in the state of Mississippi,and are they common around the Jackson,MS metro area?

P.S. I hope that the people of Mississippi realized that there are more crocodilian species on Earth besides the American Alligator...

1. Crocodiles=tropical Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

2. Caimans=parts of Latin America

3. Gharial=India

4. Chinese alligator= small area in China (endangered species)

You can search about them online and/or at the local library.

Have fun and faith in God.

[jhadorn]

Originally Posted by grasshopper_60619

I want to know how is the population of alligators in the state of Mississippi,and are they common around the Jackson,MS metro area?

P.S. I hope that the people of Mississippi realized that there are more crocodilian species on Earth besides the American Alligator...

1. Crocodiles=tropical Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

2. Caimans=parts of Latin America

3. Gharial=India

4. Chinese alligator= small area in China (endangered species)

You can search about them online and/or at the local library.

Have fun and faith in God.

According to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks in 2004 there were between 32,000 and 38,000 Alligators in the state. As of 2006 Alligators existed in 77 of 82 counties. They are most common in the coastal counties and along the Pearl River and Ross-Barnett Reservoir, which is very near Jackson. I feel sure the Alligator population is larger now as Mississippi, as well as other states, are actively increasing Alligator populations to bring them back from the brink of extinction.

MDWFP Alligator Program

The link above contains more information on Alligators in the state of Mississippi.

P.S. We do realize there are more crocodilian species on earth besides the American Alligator. We also realize that all 19 of your posts contain derogatory remarks about the state of Mississippi, which speaks volumes to me about the content of your character. Have a great day.

[mccarley]

Grasshopper is back.

[GrandviewGloria]

Why yes, Grasshopper! Alligators ARE extremely common in the Jackson area. And we Mississippians have long been aware of the existence of other Crocodilians.

Until recently, Jackson had rickety board sidewalks, beneath which lurked Gators: not just Alligators, but exotic Crocodilians descended from ones imported by various Colonels and riverboat captains. These were seen as valuable adjuncts to our unrelenting persecution of The Darkies (not just Africans, but Native Americans, Chinese, Sicilians, Dark Irish, and various uncatalogued-but-swarthy Hominids and proto-primates from present-day Indonesia).

I so clearly remember my hands being held by my Mammy, whom we called "Mammy", and my Mother, whom we called "Miss Missy-Belle", as we carefully tread those sidewalks of death....shopping for hoopskirts and whips, and pearl-handled revolvers,and other sundries a Southern lady might need.

Many a time, we'd hear the plaintive cry, "Oh please, Massa! Don' feed me to no gatahz!" But inevitably, we'd see some poor wretch pushed off the sidewalk, and quickly snatched to a grizzly death in the darkness beneath the boards. Sometimes, I'd be allowed to put an eye to a knothole, and thus witness the various species of Crocodilians vying to tear off the largest piece of someone's Butler, Boot Lackey, or Gardenia-holdin' Boy. You'd be amazed how splendidly the svelte little Gharial can rip into the flesh.

Alas, time marches on, and by 1985, most of the city had succumbed to liberal 'Social Engineering' and had been ruined by paved streets and concrete sidewalks. Gators persisted in smaller numbers, the more diminutive ones by hiding behind potted Magnolias, and the larger ones, by impersonating Cadillac Eldorados. But then, in the late nineties, an influx of Pythons from down Florida way put a serious dent in our Gator population.

Pythons have insinuated themselves into the very fabric of our society, and one never knows when one will slither into one's swimming pool, to swallow the family's Albino Crocodile, or come up through a commode, to hunt the Standard Alligators we keep about our tall white mansions, to discourage Home Invasions.

I hope I have answered your questions to sufficiency.

[mccarley]

I understand the gators prefer folks from illinois.

[southernfried]

Heck I've seen gators just on the side of the road, on Lakeland dr(hwy25),just in side the Rankin county!!!

[OneJackson]

Gators are more abundant in the swampy River towns and Delta ares. I was born in raised in Jackson and haven't seen not one gator. now there was a report of a few babies up by the tip of the Rez.

But the only way you see one in Jackson is on a plate smothered in gravy with mash potatoes, cornbread and okra and a big glass of tea on the side.