Off topic, question for Americans (USA), is this a croc or alligator?

[Yorkshire_Pud]

It looks to me as if the snout is the wrong shape for an alligator.
Watch: Trapper wrestles massive alligator from US pool

Ahh elsewhere it is described as a croc.

 

[Meta4]

It looks to me as if the snout is the wrong shape for an alligator.
Watch: Trapper wrestles massive alligator from US pool

Ahh elsewhere it is described as a croc.

Clearly a crocodile.
The snout is long and pointed rather than short and rounded like this Alligator.

The American crocodile is a rare species, but the Alligator is quite common in Florida.

American Crocodile

American Crocodile

myfwc.com

 

[MS Coast]

That was on Plantation Key, about a third of the way down the keys toward Key West. Several other news reports have it properly identified as a crocodile. Here's one.

Video shows 10-foot crocodile pulled from homeowner's pool in Florida

About two minutes of footage shows the reptile thrashing and growling as trappers struggle to restrain it in the backyard of a home in Plantation Key.

www.cbsnews.com

Alligators are common throughout the American South, but crocodiles occur only in extreme southern Florida.

 

[Cafguy]

I really like the gulf coast area. but these creatures will keep me from ever moving there. If I am close enough to ID it I am way to close

 

[mobilehomer]

The real difference is - an alligator will see you later, a crocodile - after a while

 

[Yorkshire_Pud]

The real difference is - an alligator will see you later, a crocodile - after a while

Oh dear lol

 

[MS Coast]

The real difference is - an alligator will see you later, a crocodile - after a while

About 30 years ago, crocodiles were just beginning to show up in the Everglades and a grizzly USPS ranger cautioned us about them when we were leaving the dock in a small sailboat. I assured him I was pretty familiar with alligators and knew how to avoid trouble with them. He said that crocodiles were very different - meaner, faster, stronger, ornerier and liable come after you just for looking at them.

He was very serious. We took the waning seriously, too.

 

[Grandpa]

The real difference is - an alligator will see you later, a crocodile - after a while

Will somebody, please, make sure this guy has left the building.

 

[Tufargon]

Will somebody, please, make sure this guy has left the building.

I think he said he'd be here all week.

 

[mobilehomer]

I think he said he'd be here all week.

Wednesday is Family Night, smoke-free Thursdays

 

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