Sunday, January 26, 2025

Why Crocodiles Are Thriving in the Shadow of A Nuclear Plant



Most of my life, I assumed that the way you could tell alligators from crocodiles is that alligators lived in Florida and crocodiles lived in other countries. But there are crocodiles in Florida, and in fact there were once a lot of Florida crocodiles. The crocodile population has declined a lot in comparison to alligators, mainly because of encroaching human development on the seashore. But crocodiles still hang on in Florida, with most of the remaining animals living in the canals near the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant south of Miami. And now that we know about these crocodiles living near a nuclear facility, how long will it be until we get a movie about killer mutant Florida crocodiles?



3 comments:

Marco McClean said...

I have a half-memory of reading in MissCellania years ago that the way to tell an alligator from a crocodile is whether you see it later or after while. Further, the way to tell a raven from a crow is: if you go, /Is that a crow or a raven?/, it's a crow; and if you go, /Wow, that bird is as big as a chicken!/, then it's a raven. And the way to tell a rat from a mouse is: drop it from sixty feet high. If it gets up and runs away, it's a mouse. If it splats open like a bag of vegetable soup, it's a rat.

Miss Cellania said...

Your memory is much better than mine!

Anonymous said...

(quoted)And now that we know about these crocodiles living near a nuclear facility, how long will it be until we get a movie about killer mutant Florida crocodiles?(endquoted)

It's been too long already, for those that thrive on Drive-In fare.
It'll be too soon, if you're forced to watch it when you're not in the mood for monster... well, "monster porn," but I don't mean "sex," I mean "you have a need, a compulsion, and you watch this film to fulfill that need... for a cheesy monster movie."