ORLANDO, Fla. – If you live in Central Florida, alligators can show up anytime, anywhere. Polk County deputies were called to deal with a 10-foot, 700-pound alligator wrestling with itself near a middle school. (Scroll down to see which Florida lakes have the most “bull” alligators.) While gator encounters often make headlines, News 6 wanted to know just how frequent are those sightings, and where are Florida alligators spotted the most?
To answer the question, News 6 went to Gatorland. Gatorland is home to more than 2,000 alligators, it is also fittingly Florida’s first theme park.
We met with Brandon Fisher, a gator expert who still has all 10 fingers and toes despite his day job. “Everybody thinks, ‘Alligators, oh they are big and