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Florida alligator farm provides safe home for hundreds of birds

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Birds have to worry about a bevy of predators when keeping their nests safe. There are opossum, rodents, snakes and large cats, like bobcats. But at an alligator farm in Florida, the birds have discovered they’re safe from their ground-based predators. But there is a cost there as well.

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This week, we have facts about alligators in the New York City sewers. Urban legends be damned, a full-grown gator was pulled from an East 123rd Street storm drain 68 years ago.

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