An alligator was seen Friday at a park in southeast Georgia, which prompted an alert to potential visitors, according to a media report.
“(Alligators) naturally live in the environment,” Fort Pulaski National Monument official Joel Cadoff told the Savannah Morning News. Fort Pulaski, which sits on an island between Savannah and Tybee Island, is part of the U.S. National Park Service. The site is about 260 miles from Atlanta.
Alligators tend to come out more often in the summer, and they usually come out in areas on the island where freshwater pockets have developed, Cadoff told the paper.
It is the second time this summer that an alligator has been seen at a south Georgia park. A professional trapper was brought in to Reed Bingham State Park in Adel to remove alligators.
Also, a park in Macon put up signage to warn visitors about the presence of the reptiles.
And an alligator was euthanized after being caught off Tybee Island in June.
In June, an alligator snatched a toddler at a lagoon in the Walt Disney resort. The toddler's body was found the next day.
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