Alligators Caught on Tape in Rare Feeding Frenzy

A Georgia man set out this month expecting a normal day of fishing. Instead, he encountered hundreds of writhing alligators in a canal in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in what biologists believe may be a strange feeding ritual. Ray Cason witnessed the gator gathering, which wildlife officials term a "cooperative feeding," on two consecutive mornings. Researchers aren't sure what causes the greedy gators to behave so savagely.

"There were 10-foot gators with their entire bodies three feet above the water," says Cason. "Gators rolling all over themselves. It was foggy that first morning, but I bet there were 300 gators I saw in that boat basin and canal." Read the full article. (More alligator stories.)