Disney! be careful!!!
So I`m sure most have heard this by now but a child was attacked and killed by an alligator at Disney, Gator attack. Please be careful around water and swampy areas. I never for a minute would hav...
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Disney World in Orlando is almost 30,000 acres in size, as large as some counties. Less than 1/3 of that is considered "developed." I live in a city and we have had deer, black bear, fox, racoons, and other wildlife right in our backyard. Do you really think that Disney is able to control wildlife from one area to another? Especially in murky water?
I am always amazed by people's lack of understanding of natural systems.
This was truly a tragic accident. Accidents do happen. Disney World has been open in Florida for 45 years. In all that time, this is the first alligator-related death and I believe there was one other attack back about 25 years ago.
This episode and some people's response to it reminds me somewhat of Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park and the subsequent movie. Some posters here think like Jurassic Park owner John Hammond - that they can control everything in an environment. But as Dr. Ian Malcom the mathematician cautioned: "John, the kind of control you're attempting simply is... it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is. "
I am always amazed by people's lack of understanding of natural systems.
This was truly a tragic accident. Accidents do happen. Disney World has been open in Florida for 45 years. In all that time, this is the first alligator-related death and I believe there was one other attack back about 25 years ago.
This episode and some people's response to it reminds me somewhat of Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park and the subsequent movie. Some posters here think like Jurassic Park owner John Hammond - that they can control everything in an environment. But as Dr. Ian Malcom the mathematician cautioned: "John, the kind of control you're attempting simply is... it's not possible. If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is. "
