They wish someone had given that family a warning, too.
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Disney is adding signs at its Florida resort warning about alligators after a 2-year-old boy was attacked and killed this week, the company said. She screamed and everyone scattered. The alligator surprised the Graves family as it attacked and drowned the young boy. Removal and euthanasia of alligators causing threat or harm to people is an unfortunate but necessary and appropriate response by authorities and does not impact alligator populations significantly.
Venditti says people shouldn’t judge the parents of 2-year-old Lane Graves.
Disney Chairman and CEO Robert A. Iger called the Graves family and released a statement about the boy’s death.
An autopsy Thursday determined the child died from drowning and traumatic injuries, reported the Associated Press.
Most Florida residents know to keep kids and pets away from water, not to feed gators and to be especially vigilant at dusk, dawn and during the June-through-July nesting season when the reptiles are most active. Then they got their first gator – another big one, more than 10 feet long.
Visitors saw no inconvenience late in the week, but it was hard not to notice uniformed guards at every entrance to the beachfront, a temporary measure put in place until late Friday afternoon, when construction workers began building a small fence as a barrier to the water.
David Hiden said his son, aged five, was paddling in a lagoon next to a Disney World hotel in Orlando in April past year when a six to seven foot gator swam up towards him.
The toddler’s father Matt Graves tried frantically to save him when the alligator snatched him from roughly 30 centimetres of water, but could not pry his son from the animal’s jaws.
Hiden said two alligators closed in on his son. “The sound of dogs barking and playing may draw an alligator to the area”.
“We have a large property, and from time to time, we have to remove alligators from our property”, Wahler said.
Walt Disney World could be found liable and face a multimillion-dollar payout if the parents of a two-year-old Nebraska boy who was snatched and killed by an alligator at one of the amusement park’s hotels decide to launch legal action, experts say. Trappers caught and killed an 8-1/2-foot alligator that had her body parts in its belly. Venditti even has three photos taken during that playtime, which she shared.
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“We never thought about alligators either”.
