Sometimes little ones have to learn lessons the hard way. That goes double on the rough, rough retention ponds and county roads of St. Cloud, Florida.
It was there that a group of cranes chased a baby alligator across a road and back before the young dinosaur smartly found his way into a pond. (Fun fact: a group of cranes is known as a “dance.” These birds had anything but happy feet.)
The whole interaction was captured by Mallery Neptune, who narrated as the animals walked back and forth just beyond a “Slow: Children At Play” sign. She posted the clip to Facebook with the caption “Just a Monday drive to Hobby Lobby.”
The cranes had to teach the gator a lesson now, before it got big enough to terrorize a Wendy’s or make a trout fisherman consider his mortality.
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This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2021.