#Florida bullfrogs

[whatnext10]

Fall Can be a Beautiful Time For a Frog

Fall Frog Early fall in central Florida is almost always a really pretty time of year. The temperatures are becoming more bearable and even though we don’t get leaf color like some other places in this world, we get some. And some of the leaves that fall can still look pretty, especially in the water. This little American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) seemed to think so as he floated among…

[lorienn-art]

FR Heyyy Le début de l'année universitaire à été assez dur pour être honnête donc je n'ai pas pu autant dessiner que je l'aurais souhaité maaiiiis j'ai malgré tout réussi à faire un petit dessin pour la saison d'Halloween 👀👀👀 Je voulais vraiment reprendre sa version sorcière (oui, ces croquis sont une référence à un petit comic que j'avais fait pour le DTIYS des 400 followers sur Insta hehe) — et puisque je l'appelle pas mal "Florida Woman", j'ai pensé que ça serait sympa de lui donner un aspect marécageux, avec de la faune local et tout : j'ai essayé de représenter (du mieux que j'ai pu jsjs) un mocassin d'eau de Floride (Agkistrodon conanti), des ouaouarons (Lithobates catesbeianus) et une veuve noire d'Amérique du Nord (Latrodectus mactans), des compagnons de choix pour une sorcière des marais je pense 😌 Cette page a pris plus de temps que je pensais mais j'en suis tout de même contente ! J'avais peur que les couleurs soient un peu cracra mais finalement elles ne sont pas si mal je trouve ! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

EN Heyyy The beginning of the new academic school year has been kinda rough ngl so I didn't manage to draw as much as I wished buuuut I still made a little piece to celebrate Spooky Season 👀👀👀 I really wanted to bring back her Witch version (yes, theses sketch are a reference to a little comic I made for the 400 IG followers DTIYS hehe) — and you know, since I call her "Florida Woman" that much, I thought it would be cool to make her all swampy, with some local fauna and stuff: I tried to represent (as best as I could jsjs) a Florida cottonmouth (Agkistrodon conanti), American bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus) and a southern black widow (Latrodectus mactans), great companions for a Swamp Witch I think 😌 This piece took me longer than I thought it would but I'm happy with it! I was scared the colours would end up looking all muddy but they're not bad imo!

Close ups and reference:

[arthistoryanimalia]

English naturalist Mark Catesby was born #OTD (24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749). Here is both his original watercolor study and published print (which he also etched and hand-colored himself) of an American Bullfrog, scientific name now Lithobates catesbeianus in his honor, from his landmark work The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1st ed. 1729-47):

1. c. 1722-6 watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic on paper, 26.5 x 36.7 cm Royal Collection Trust RCIN 926025

2. Plate 72, v.2, 1734-47 hand-colored lithograph Biodiversity Heritage Library

Book recommendations:

Mark Catesby's Natural History of America: The Watercolors from the Royal Library Windsor Castle

The Curious Mister Catesby: A "Truly Ingenious" Naturalist Explores New Worlds

Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark Catesby

[aquariuminfobureau]

The North American bullfrog, Rana (or Lithobates) catesbiana, is ubiquitous in many parts of the world, including now regions that are far from its.natural range. Initially this was eastern North America, from southern areas of Canada, south to central Florida and eastern Mexico. Nowadays through human carelessness, this species is quite cosmopolitan in temperate to tropical climates.

Sometimes this and related North American ranids species, are regarded as a genus named Lithobates. This is mainly on phylogenetic and geographical bases, be size they remain very similar to the Old World frogs assigned to the sister genus Rana. Although such grounds are reasonable, many people are not fans of splitting neat, monophyletic groups, that have neatly low morphological disparity between their members. Currently this species is thus known as R. catesbiana and also as L. catesbiana, the genus Lithobates coming back into some popularity for such Nearctic frogs.

Rana catesbiana earned its popular name of bullfrog, because of the audible calls made by the male frogs. Describing frogs as bullfrogs on the basis of their vocalizations is not unique. A number of unrelated frogs are thus so names, including Pyxicephalus sp. and Kaloula pulchra, which are common in the exotic pet trade, but also Calyptocephalella, Hoplobatrachus and Lymnodynastes, and even sometimes the cane toad, Rhinella marinus.

Rana catesbiana are very large frogs, reaching snout to rump sizes of 9 to 15 or rarely 30 centimeters, or 3 and a 1/2 to even 8 inches. R. catesbiana is not only notable for being the largest frog present in its natural range, but also the best at taking food underwater. As adult frogs R. catesbiana mostly consume large aquatic prey, such as crayfish, whereas the juveniles tend to consume smaller prey of terrestrial origin.

As an older child, I regularly saw appealing tadpoles for sale at aquarium livestock vendors. Numerous tadpoles were bought as novelties, and people released the metamorphosing frogs into the wild. However this species has a slow period of growth until reaching maturity, during which time the climate must remain warm. The year round temperatures in northern European countries, such as Britain, were not suitable for the adult frogs to found a self-sustaining colony.

American bullfrogs may have originated in the temperate zone, but they have evolved to optimize their reproductive success in warm summers. The species begins to breed when the air temperature is 20 degrees centigrade, and the temperature of the water is about 15 degrees. Thus they do very well when they are introduced into unfamiliar, tropical climates with year round warmth..

The optimal temperature for the species is 15 to 32 degrees, though they are known to tolerate temporary exposure to temperatures up to about 38 degrees. Their optimum temperature range has enabled this temperate species to conquer numerous regions, where it has been translocated by man.

Although local conditions have surely shaped the preferences and tolerances of local populations in such a widespread species, frogs from both the north and south of its range in the USA, require water temperatures of at least 15 degrees for the course of their development, from fertilization to hatching.

Bullfrogs are negatively affected by the acidification of their habitats, but they are noted to be averse to alkaline waters, and they are usually found where the pH is below 7. The pH certainly should not drop below 4.5, nor should it be as high as 8, at which points their life cycle is impaired. Where adult bullfrogs live in waters that seasonally have a pH higher than this range, they switch to hunting more terrestrial prey.

These frogs are not problematic to feed, for the carnivorous adults are fed on high protein, floating pellets when they are raised for human consumption.They are however problematic to house with other species, or smaller individuals of their own species. Adult bullfrogs have very large mouths, powerful bites, and strongly predatory habits.

The aquatic tadpoles are less problematic, as they mostly consume algae, as well as tiny animals such as rotifers. They are harmless to other ornamental animals, and seem to consume vascular plant material only as a fallback food resource. They will readily consume food such as algae wafers

American bullfrogs are habitat generalists, most associated with still freshwaters, and they also inhabitants of slower flowing waters. They greatly prefer the presence of lush vegetation, both in and surrounding their habitats. In the aquaterrarium, they require a standard, woodland type terrestrial area, but the water component is more important for adult frogs. After metamorphosis, bullfrogs become more terrestrial. The tadpoles require an aquarium.

One problem with all metamorphosed Rana sp. is that they can injure themselves on the glass when they jump, particularly creating lesions to their poor noses. Therefore the aquaterrarium should be sufficiently spacious to prevent these sorts of accidents happening. Adults of Rana catesbiana should not be cohabited with any animals that can fit into their maws, although they cannot tear at meat, and are harmless to animals larger than themselves.

[newmusicradionetwork]

Nate Barnes’ New Summertime Anthem “Love In The Country”

Quartz Hill Records artist Nate Barnes returns with his latest, the summertime anthem, “Love in the Country,” available across all streaming and digital retail partners now. Stream / Buy “Love in the Country” HERE The breezy, come-on to a lover to spend the night together outdoors beneath the stars was written by country powerhouses Ryan Hurd, Jordan Schmidt, Ernest Smith and Geoffrey Warburton. “Love in the Country,” boasts toe-tappin’ lyrics and stunning visuals paired with an undeniable hook of summer love. It’s an irresistible jam with a back-porch groove. Hey baby do you hear that song All the crickets and the bullfrogs singing along Tween the wind in the trees and the birds and the bees Sounds so sweet making love in the country “‘Love in the Country’ reminds me of young love. Growing up in small town Michigan, there wasn’t much to do but take your date to the movies, hang out at late night bonfires or sit on the back of your truck bed and talk all night. And sometimes you just want to get out in the country to spend a little time together one-on-one,” says Barnes. Produced by Derek George (Randy Houser) and Ilya Toshinkskiy (Jelly Roll), “Love in the Country” possesses a chorus that makes the listener want to clap their hands and get up and dance while the bridge mirrors a summer romance between young lovers without a care in the world. “Love in the Country” is the first song from Barnes’ upcoming debut album, slated for release in early 2025. About Nate Barnes: Hailing from South Haven, Michigan, Nate Barnes is a blue-collar storyteller who writes and sings about God, family, hard work, heartache, love, and the simple joys of life. The former nuclear power plant worker spent years playing bars, coffee shops, small venues and festivals in and around his hometown while juggling a grueling day job that included shoveling and digging trenches, laying pipelines, pouring concrete and performing mechanical maintenance duties for the plant, oftentimes enduring extreme weather conditions and 14-hour shifts. A virtual unknown before signing with Quartz Hill Records, Barnes’ debut single, “You Ain’t Pretty,” became the #1 Most Added Song by a Debut Artist at Country Radio (Mediabase), cresting the Top 40 and earning over 34 million impressions on TikTok. Featured in American Songwriter, Billboard, Country Insider, Holler, Music Row, People, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Sounds Like Nashville, Taste of Countryand more, Barnes has shared the stage with Lady A, Russell Dickerson, Cody Johnson, Florida-Georgia Line and Chris Janson. Barnes recently completed his debut album with producers Mickey Jack Cones (Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett), Derek George (Randy Houser) and Ilya Toshinskiy (Jelly Roll). His Quartz Hill Records debut album will be released in early 2025 while the first single from the album, “Love in the Country,” is available now across all streaming and digital retail partners. Read the full article

[floorley]

I always feel weird leaving a Whole Comment on these posts but this has consumed my brain all morning trying to remember it, so. (Florida)

Down by the banks of the hanky panky

Where the bullfrog jumps from bank to banky

Singing E I O U

Your momma stinks and so do you

I pledge allegiance to the flag

Coca Cola makes me gag

Coca Cola burns me up

Now we’re talking 7-Up

7-Up has no caffeine

Now we’re talking Billy Jean

Billy Jean ran out of sight

Now we’re talking dynamite

Dynamite blew up the school

Now we’re talking really cool

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

[whoever’s hand gets slapped on 1 is out]

so in grade school i learned this clapping rhyme that went something like “down by the banks of the hanky panky / where the bullfrog jumps from bank to banky / singing east side west side east side west side / east side west side dilly dang DONG”

but i asked my girlfriend if she knew it and she remembered completely different lyrics… so now i’m curious how other people learned this rhyme? if you sang something roughly along these lines in school or camp please reblog this and tell me how you think it went (and also where you are from, maybe it’s a regional thing? i’m from north carolina)

[edwinjetpacktesting]

4 Cagey Bullfrogs Pray Easily

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Nature and Music

I find the concept of nature and music very interesting. From what I understand, pretty much every culture developed its own form of music before we had the technology for worldwide communication. For example, folk singing is a part of Finnish culture; ancient Kalevala rune singing is 2000 to 3000 years old, and animal bone flutes made by Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals have been found in France and Slovenia that may be as old as 53,000 years (Gray et al., 2001; Sahi, 2011). The widespread development of music in different cultures makes me interested in the origins of music itself. As discussed in the readings this week, music can be found throughout nature. Examples of this include whale songs, which even have a similar structure to human music, and birdsongs, which closely follow the human music scale (Gray et al., 2001). Birds and whales are only two instances of music in nature. I would also consider more abstract sounds or mixtures of sound in nature to be music. The wind rustling trees in a forest or the sound of rushing water in a stream play the role of instruments in a natural song, topped off with a bird singing or cicadas chirping. If we pay enough attention, any collection of sounds in nature can form a song. Sometimes, these sounds are even mixed into commercially produced music. 

If I listen closely to the song Fishin’ in the Dark by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, I think I can hear what sounds like bullfrog noises. This could be an instrument that I am unfamiliar with, but the sound helps set the scene of a pond or a lake at night. I have found that many song lyrics include aspects of nature, using it to tell a story. For example, the song Dirt by Florida Georgia Line uses the imagery of red dirt to tell a story of growing up and falling in love. 

As someone that listens to a lot of country music, I know that so many of the songs I listen to talk about nature or different aspects of nature, but when I try and write about it, I struggle to think of specific lyrics. Some songs I think of make me feel like the artist is singing about nature, but yet when I look up the song lyrics, they do not actually explicitly describe much about nature. I find this fascinating as I think it is because while nature is not specifically being described in detail, vague references and the production used to create the vibes of a song make me feel like the song takes place in or revolves around nature. An example of this is Carolina by Eric Church. When I listen to this song, I feel like the artist is singing about nature, but in reality, the lyrics are not very focused on the specifics. Are there any songs that you can think of that specifically describe nature in detail?

Sources

Gray, P. M., Krause, B., Atema, J., Payne, R., Krumhansl, C., & Baptista, L. (2001). The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music. Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 291(5501), 52–54. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.10.1126/SCIENCE.1056960

Sahi, V. (2011). Using folk traditional music to communicate the sacredness of nature in Finland. Spiritual Values of Protected Areas of Europe, 2, 129

[the1beardedgent]

#bullfrogs galore. When there's an alligator in the swamp, the bullfrogs are silent. lol #swamp #floridaswamp #titusville #brevardcounty #spacecoast #centralflorida #florida (at Wuesthoff Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQTQr4FnEqN/?utm_medium=tumblr

[samiholloway]

Huh.

I literally never thought of it this way.

On the other hand, having all my teen years in Florida, I got really blase about gators just randomly appearing in any body of water. They just spawn like pokemon.

And where I live now? Deer everywhere, bigger than anywhere else I've lived. Huge bullfrogs. Raccoons the size of dogs. Someone dropping me off one day swore she saw a coyote but I've only seen foxes. In fall there's always reports of bears around. We don't think about it that much.

Huh.

A BEAR ATE MY BEST HUMMINGBIRD FEEDER.

Rude.

[redeyereptiles]

Wildlife, Captivity, and the Pet Trade

Bringing Wildlife Home: While it may be easy and tempting to grab a Garter Snake or Salamander from the backyard instead of buying or adopting a captive bred animal, there are a lot of reasons why you shouldn’t.  Removing an animal from the wild often has repercussions for you, the animal itself, native animal populations, the environment, and potentially even your other animals.

The first issue you’ll encounter is that parasites are very common in wild animals.  Given their free range, unmonitored diet and unknown travel history, the animal is most likely carrying something that will eventually be a detriment to its health.  That’s why captive animals tend to have double or triple the life expectancy of their wild counterparts, because we eliminate natural dangers.  Parasites and other potential reptile related diseases can easily move from one animal to another via fecal contact/ingestion, human interaction, and surface contact.  Not only could it cost you an expensive vet visit for one animal, it could lead to multiple.  Large parasite loads lead to a loss of appetite, regurgitation, swelling, loss of vital organ function, critical weight loss and death.  Not only are vet visits expensive, stressful for your animal, and time consuming, they’re also challenging for reptiles because legitimate exotic vets are hard to come by.  In our experience, vets who take reptiles aren’t always versed in reptile care.  You’ll often leave frustrated, having had more knowledge of your animal than the actual vet and having wasted that time and money. There are experienced, specialty exotic vets out there, they’re just hard to find in most areas.

The next problem you will face is feeding your wild animal.  In many cases, wild caught snakes will refuse to eat frozen/thawed rodents and will insist on only eating live prey because that is what comes natural to them.  This can be difficult for some new keepers to handle if they refuse to transition to frozen food.  Many people may not find an issue with feeding live, but it is something to consider. Insect eating animals can be challenging to feed as well, some may be accustomed to eating a specific type of invertebrate that you can’t get as a captive feeder option from a store.  It can be very challenging to keep the animal healthy and stress free when it instinctually sees you as a predator, which it likely will because you took it out of its home.  Getting your wild animal eating, parasite free and happy will be hard.  They can simply fail to thrive for you, they can still crash, even if you do everything “right.” Health complications aside, taking animals from the wild is illegal in many places as well.  If you aren’t familiar with your local laws and conservation acts, we would recommend not attempting it at all.  Keeping wild or even captive born native animals can lead to substantial fines and other consequences.  Even beyond that, there are far more reasons this is a bad idea.  Removing native animals from the wild can impact breeding populations (especially if it’s an adult animal), and contributes to endangering the species’ existence as a whole.  That’s a lot to be responsible for.  Human intervention in animal populations can affect more than that one species but all species, predator and prey, who rely on each other to balance numbers and contribute to a stable, functioning, biodiverse world.

Keeping animals for a short period of time before releasing them back into the wild is another issue.  If the animal you’re harbouring comes into contact with other animals in your home, they can contract new “captive diseases” and bacteria strains that you might not be aware of.  If new diseases make it into native populations, this can be a major problem.  Immune systems of animal populations change based on their environment and socialization, just like humans.  Wild populations might not have the antibodies to fight certain captive animal diseases and vice versa.  A rampant, foreign disease could be disastrous for native animal colonies. Wild Caught Animals (Pet Trade): Understanding the consequences, this information can be transferred to a specific area of the legal pet trade as well believe it or not.   It is expensive and specialized to breed reptiles. Therefore, captive bred reptiles are usually expensive to purchase (with the exception of easy to breed, common, hobby reptiles like Corn Snakes and Crested Geckos).  Chances are, if the price of an animal seems too good to be true, it probably is. Exotic animal “farming” is a massive, worldwide industry.  Farming means that animals are collected from outdoor pens or otherwise ‘cages’ once a year, after a male-female pair is placed there to reproduce.  The “farmers” may supplement food in years where food is sparse, but the animals are almost completely unmanned, and left to be “wild.” This is commonplace in areas like Florida (for its favourable climate), usually with species like Chameleons and Green Iguanas. After the babies are collected, they are wholesaled into the pet trade.  

Similarly, other more exotic species of animals are also collected in their native ranges for sale into the pet trade.  They are usually captured by locals, and sold and shipped to dealers in the North American market. After that, they are commonly sold to Wholesalers who then sell to major Pet Retailers to be sold one last time.  A long journey for the animals, as they are put into crates or bins where they are over-crowded and stressed out.  They often become dehydrated and emaciated in the process and have ample opportunity to contract parasites and disease on their travels.  They aren’t separated by gender or age, so they usually breed and fight under the stress of the experience.  They frequently end up in the pet store gravid, dehydrated, injured and full of problems. Some wild caught reptiles can adapt to their new living situation better than others, usually if they are very caught young.  This doesn’t apply to all of them, but for the most part a young animal can adjust better after receiving proper husbandry, medical care if necessary and a great deal of effort on the part of the keeper. Adult animals that are brought into captivity are significantly more challenging to readjust.  Understandably so, as they have been removed from their environment, put through a traumatic experience and placed into new living quarters that are completely different from what they’re accustomed to. 

While decades of reptile keeping experience have given us the knowledge to give an animal basically anything its species requires, it’s still going to be different to what a wild animal really experiences in its natural range.  It may technically have all its needs met and more, but it’s a different world altogether and they are very likely to crash from the stress and change.  This is very common for animals like Water Dragons, Anoles, Tokay Geckos, Uromastyx, Mountain Horned Dragons, Legless Lizards and exotic species of snakes like African Egg Eating Snakes. Always buy captive bred animals whenever possible and try your best to buy from responsible breeders and reptile expos over chain pet stores.  Whenever buying any animal, always get as much information as you can about the animal’s behavioural, genetic and feeding history.

Releasing Pets into the Wild: Now that we understand the problems associated with bringing wildlife into captivity, we should also look at what happens when captive bred animals are released into the wild.  When you take on the responsibility of a pet, you should be completely prepared for exactly what it is you’re getting into.  This responsibility includes;

- Knowing, accepting, and being able to fulfil its care requirements at every age. - Being prepared to care for the animal for its entire life, however long that may be. Most reptiles have exceptionally long lives in captivity. - Having a safe space for your animal to go in the case of a housing emergency. - Having money set aside for emergency vet trips. - Understanding that animals need time, and planning for personal future lifestyle changes to make sure you will always have time to take care of it, to the best of your ability. - Being able to afford any other unexpected expenses regarding the animal. (Equipment repairs, replacements) - Being absolutely sure this is the animal for you, to ensure you will not get tired of it a year later. - If a situation arises that is completely beyond your control and you can absolutely no longer care for your animal, despite all of your planning, make sure to re-home your animal to a responsible home or to a rescue.  Never release your animal into the wild under any circumstances. When irresponsible reptile owners release their animals into the wild, depending on the climate of the area, the animal will suffer a painful, undeserved death OR it can devastate native populations.  If a non-native animal is released and can withstand the climate of the area enough to breed there, it can become an invasive species.  In this situation, so long as the native animals pose no competition or threat to the newly introduced species’ survival, it WILL become an invasive population.  In some cases, these animals are predators who cause serious damage to the way an environment functions.   We’ve all heard of the seemingly never-ending problems faced by the Florida Everglades.  A hurricane destroys a breeding facility and releases a number of Burmese Pythons.  Those pythons, though not native to the area, thrive in the ideal climate.  They are opportunistic predators with a keen skill for camouflage and no predators in the area large enough to prey on them.  They are hard to find, and have the opportunity to breed at uncontrollable rates without intervention.  With the sudden explosion in predatory animals, Florida’s native fauna populations are steadily declining.  Burmese Pythons aren’t the only invasive species in Florida either.  The climate is virtually perfect for many non-native animals to thrive.  This includes several species of fish and plenty of Iguanas, which have been released from irresponsible pet owners who no longer wished to care for them.  Many of these invasive animals are out-competing native species for food, making native species into food, decimating natural flora, and infiltrating human occupied areas.

Our actions as pet owners have the ability to influence animal populations and ecosystems everywhere.  Taking animals from and/or releasing animals into the wild can have major consequences for everyone.  We need to remember this the next time we let our house-cat (an unmonitored predator) outside to run around as it pleases, killing rodents, reptiles/amphibians and birds at unprecedented rates.  We also need to remember this when we let our children bring home the frog from the pond down the street, as it could very well be an endangered or protected species.  The decisions we make regarding our animals have an impact on native wildlife populations. It is our responsibility to protect what needs protecting.

[whatnext10]

Warmer Weather Leads to the Return of Beautiful Frogs

Bullfrog in Paradise With warmer weather most days my frogs have been slowly waking from their long winters naps and showing themselves again. Some nights are still a little cool, at least by frog standards, but most days and especially the sunny ones my American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) is out sunning for at least part of the day. The little green tree frogs have also been showing up…

[airandangels]

The non-campfire scene (since she can't actually get a campfire started) in "Detour" is such a delight. It's the kind of conversation that I feel like these days we only get our favourite characters having in fanfics? I mean, they range over such topics as struggling to give meaning to having cancer, Betty or Wilma, the supreme indifference of nature to human life, and then Scully tries to get Mulder to sleep with his head in her lap while she promises to stay awake to guard him (he was hurt by FLORIDA MOTHMEN).

And Mulder asks her to sing something so he knows she's still awake. And she demurs saying she can't carry a tune, and he insists, and Gillian Anderson waits ten full seconds in silence (I timed it) before she sings "Jeremiah was a bullfrog." And she's sincerely bad at it.

[edwinjetpacktesting]

7 Bizarre Bullfrogs Breathe Gently

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[the1beardedgent]

In this clip you can clearly hear an alligator and bullfrogs (turn your volume up), and can tell a definite difference in the sounds they make. Bullfrogs 'chirp' and a gator has more of a rumble. #alligator #alligators #alligatorsounds #weusthoffpark #titusville #brevardcounty #spacecoast #centralflorida #eastcentralflorida #florida (at Wuesthoff Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQiuin-nFMJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gothicflorida]

florida gothic #23

you are walking your dog and you hear a noise from the swamp outside of your neighborhood.

it sounds too big to be a bullfrog, too close to be a cow, and you’ve never heard an alligator sound like that.

you quicken your steps.