{"id":271162,"date":"2026-05-14T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:52:10","slug":"florida-alligator-caught-on-video-eating-smaller-gator-at-gatorland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/271162\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida alligator caught on video eating smaller gator at Gatorland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a16pgzp7hpee2fmy.jpg\" alt=\"Florida alligator eats smaller gator at Gatorland\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Nature\u2019s brutal side was on full display at Gatorland in Orlando when startled visitors witnessed an alligator turn a smaller peer into a midday snack a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The footage, captured by guest Chris Hester on March 30, shows the larger reptile clamped down on its smaller counterpart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/florida-homeowner-spots-gator-near-her-fence-deputies-wrangle-reptile-see-ya-later-alligator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida homeowner spots gator near her fence, deputies &#8216;arrest&#8217; reptile: &#8216;See ya later, alligator&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We were visiting Gatorland for the day and had just purchased food to feed the gator,&#8221; Hester told Storyful. &#8220;As we were feeding them a small gator swam over the head of a large gator, as it swam over his head the large gator snatched him into his mouth and took him underwater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was collected by Storyful.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/science\/wild-nature\/alligators\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alligators<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8211; Nature\u2019s brutal side was on full display at Gatorland in Orlando when startled visitors witnessed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13925,47,28,30,29,115,8713,554,628,14992],"class_list":["post-271162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alligators","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-science","tag-us","tag-wild-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}