It's mating season. Over the weekend here in Tampa a guy had a 8 footer chilling at his front door. Called Fish and Wildlife and they said they didnt have the bandwidth to take care of it so he had to wait until it left and went back into the lake. I had a 7.5 footer in my driveway one morning three years ago.
This is why a lot of breeders have some type of stall/device that blocks a mare from Kicking the stallion.
Watched a Cooper's hawk murder and eat an adult duck in my backyard recently. Couldn't fly away with it so it just sat there and dined in. All that was left were wings, head, spine, feet and rib cage. Mortal Kombat AF
We have "influencers" that do this shit out here all the time - I'm actually amazed serious injury doesn't happen more often.
Thought that was definitely going to be barb to the eye Guy got off real easy with a knuckle shot wife caught one this weekend and I had to deal with hook extraction, 0/10 would not recommend
My grandma emailed me when I was in college to let me know Steve Irwin was dead. Like she didn't know that I had the internet and knew about it well before she sent it. It literally said that he got attacked by "some critter down in Australia." Miss that woman so much.
At least they've finally become afraid of bears - but Buffalo and Moose are apparently still cute and cuddly.