Both are majestic, but in terms of safety, we’re lucky we have many more alligators in the United States than we do crocodiles.
I note this in light of the woman in South Carolina who was attacked by an alligator on Tuesday. Fortunately, the lady was only injured. That’s the general rule of fatal alligator attacks: relative to population size, they are relatively rare.
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