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Originally Posted by HarmanKardon
The dernier American cri (Cincinnati, Orlando): feeding animals with little kids. Cool.
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Its' probable that the gorilla in Cincinnati was protecting the child. He was handling the kid in the same way that they handle their own young. If the gorilla had wanted to kill the child, that would have happened in the first several seconds.
Re: the Florida incident mentioned in the OP, alligators eat carrion they like their meat a little gamey and will frequently take a kill to the bottom and wedge it under a submerged log or other likely spot. Then after it has ripened a bit, they'll return to dine at leisure.
So, it's possible that the alligator didn't kill the man he was found with and that the body was dumped in the lake and the 'gator did what 'gators do. Probably happens a lot in Florida. Since alligators can digest bone, there would be nothing left forensically. Of course, the 'gator could have killed him too.