Large male American alligator bellows at Corkscrew Swamp, video shows

Ever seen or heard a large male American alligator bellow?

It sounds kind of like a tractor trailer going over a 100-foot stretch of rumble strips at 80 miles an hour.

Mollie Niekamp, seasonal outdoor educator at Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary outside of Naples, captured some vivid video footage recently of a male rising above the water, filling its lungs with water before submerging and making a deep, guttural-like noise that’s been blasting across the Everglades for thousands of years…

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