Alligators

“Everybody's catching fish and having fun and coming back with smiles on their faces,” says Jack Payne. Especially those who get out there early to claim their spots.

Meet the Busbices, stars of A&E's new series “Country Buck$.” As son Matt Busbice, 32, is quick to point out, this is no “Duck Dynasty.”

Three days after Mississippi's state record for alligators was broken, The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks has certified an even bigger gator.

“Every little restaurant wants to serve alligator,” said Kelvin Townsend, an alligator farmer and processor in LaBelle. “And now that they've seen the TV shows, everyone wants to kill an alligator.”

A gigantic alligator caught by a family in Alabama earlier this month has set a Safari Club International world record.

Ever wondered what’s in the stomach of a potential world record alligator? Well, you’re about to find out.

Alligator hunting is fairly new in Alabama, but the state has proved to be home to some whooper reptiles. The newest catch is likely a world record at over 1,000 pounds.

Animal rights advocates are protesting alligator hunting in a South Florida wildlife refuge.

A trapper was sent to Lake Toho in central Florida to hunt a gator that bit a 9-year-old boy several times.

Alligator hunting season has become one of the hottest sports in Mississippi.

It took two men 40 minutes to snare, rope and tape the 800 pound alligator as a crowd of about 100 people watched.

A woman opened the door to her back yard in coastal Mississippi to find that a 5-foot alligator had taken up residence in her pool.

Hunters must have a valid Mississippi hunting license before the application is made.

Raymond Covington says not being on the state's call list for nuisance alligators is no big deal because he only received $100 a call.

A 10-foot alligator has been shot and killed in the surf at Folly Beach southeast of Charleston.

Gregory Johnson was selected to lead Kentucky's wildlife agency in the aftermath of an ethics scandal involving its former commissioner.

Responders were on the beach for about an hour trapping the alligator. It's not the first time Pass Christian police have responded to a call about an alligator.

Texas game wardens have shot and killed a 200-pound, 9-foot-long alligator found roaming backyards in a suburban Houston neighborhood.

The red wolf is a smaller cousin of the gray wolf found in the western United States. A red wolf typically weighs 45 to 80 pounds.

Whether it's bears wandering through neighborhoods, deer feasting on gardens, or raccoons slipping through the doggie door wildlife and people in Florida share the same space more often than not.

State and federal agencies are offering a $6,500 reward for information leading to those who shot and killed two alligators in the Pond Creek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Arkansas.

A deadly young Nile crocodile has been captured alive in Everglades National Park.

The Vernon Parish Police Jury wants the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to add Vernon Lake to its list of alligator harvesting locations.

A 30-year-old man has been cited for alleged deer and alligator violations in Jefferson Parish.

Kentucky's former top wildlife official was charged with a series of ethics code violations, stemming partly from claims that agency employees performed personal work for him while on state time.

Wetlands Edge, a partnership between Decatur schools and BP, is a 500-acre certified wildlife habitat with more than 100 animal species.

Feral pigs are far more destructive than nutria and armadillos and constitute a threat to human beings, agriculture and the environment. They are everywhere, grazing on golf courses, sauntering onto airport runways and crashing into cars.

Couple says they didn't discover the 84-plus alligators on land next to their homestead until four years after they bought the property in southwest Mississippi.

Follow along as Mark Olis attempts to call in central Florida Alligators. He's scouting a 25,000 acre cattle ranch with his AR-15 near Melbourne, Fla.