While you may be used to seeing alligators in and around lakes and ponds in Southwest Florida, it may come as a surprise they also sometimes venture to coastal waters.
New research documents instances of alligators preying on small sharks and stingrays in salt water along the Atlantic coasts of Georgia and Florida. We're joined by one of the researchers who conducted the study.
Dr. James Nifong is a researcher at Kansas State University. He and his colleagues spent nearly a decade studying alligators along the Florida and Georgia coasts. They captured more than 500 gators and pumped their stomachs see what they had consumed.
