The Head Slap

Immediately after I took this photo, this gator slapped its head on the water. The head slap is a dominance display, similar to the alligator bellow. Normally, the gators wouldn't be doing much of this at this time of year, but because of the ongoing drought in southeast Texas, area lakes and ponds are drying up, causing the gators to have to share a shrinking living space. This guy was probably staking out his territory.

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