{"id":435,"date":"2006-03-31T02:14:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T10:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2006-04-06T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T08:15:08","slug":"vicious-dog-pack-kills-gator-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/vicious-dog-pack-kills-gator-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicious Dog Pack Kills Gator in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from MS newsgroup:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Vicious Dog Pack Kills Gator in Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty and even a  certain justice manifested within that cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally  considered the &#8220;apex predator&#8221; in its natural eco-system, can still  fall victim to implemented &#8216;team work&#8217; strategy made possible due to the tight knit social structure and &#8220;survival of the fittest pack mentality&#8221;  bred into the canines over the last several hundreds of years by natural selection.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the Alpha dog has a muzzle hold on the gator preventing it  breathing, while the remainder of the pack prevents the beast from rolling.<\/p>\n<p>See the attached remarkable photograph courtesy of Nature Magazine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We strongly recommend that you preview this privately before determining if a younger audience should view the photo below.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:toggle('dogpackkillsgator');\">View the photo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"dogpackkillsgator\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/v\/misc\/dog_pack_kills_gator.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/gallery\/d\/6106-2\/dog_pack_kills_gator.jpg\" alt=\"dog pack kills gator\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from MS newsgroup: Vicious Dog Pack Kills Gator in Florida At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty. The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the &#8220;apex predator&#8221; in its natural eco-system, can still fall victim &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/vicious-dog-pack-kills-gator-in-florida\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vicious Dog Pack Kills Gator in Florida&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}