March 18 (UPI) — A Florida woman captured video of a playful alligator chasing a remote-controlled toy boat across the surface of a retention pond.
The filmer, a producer for WJAX-TV, captured footage when the gator’s attention was grabbed by a neighbor’s remote-controlled boat in the Jacksonville retention pond.
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The video shows the gator chasing the boat as it zooms across the surface of the water.
It was unclear whether the alligator had simply confused the boat for a potential food source, but University of Tennessee at Knoxville researchers said in a 2015 study that playful behavior had been identified in alligators and other crocodiles.
