Not exactly Jonah, was he. An aspect of all this that is fascinating is that alligators are living fossils. In general, they're a little smaller, but still the same beasty that cohabitated ancient Earth with T Rex, and so forth. Every time I hear about something like this, or some one's poodle being eaten, or the child that got snacked in Disney World, I have to remark: "another dinosaur problem."