The southeastern United States, the eternal home of alligators.
There are about 5 million crocodiles in the United States, and in Florida, which has a population of more than 20 million, there are 1.3 million crocodiles, which is equivalent to people living directly in crocodile dens.
From time to time, the predators wander around the residential areas, and the local people are unbearable.
Fortunately, there are professional crocodile hunters, who are just a phone call away, and they immediately come and catch them quickly.
(Nuisance crocodile, call the catcher)
There are only 113 hunters with crocodile hunting qualifications in all of Florida. The crocodiles they catch will be owned by them and they will be sold for their skins or for meat.
For dangerous crocodiles that invade human territory, the authorities recruit more talented people on a contract basis and reward them with $30 each. It's not enough to buy a nice dress.
Laborious and thankless, those who choose to do this are all for love, and the wild call in the tough genes.
Among them are some huntresses, and their heroic appearance makes the arrogant crocodiles fearful.
Julie Hart, 62, is the first huntress in Florida to get a license to hunt crocodiles.
She has been catching crocodiles for 20 years, and she can catch an average of 200 crocodiles a year.
Julie Hart, a high school teacher who raised six children on her own, has the kindness of a Southerner. It was this gentleness that made her sneer in the first ten years of catching crocodiles.
Imagine a crocodile that is almost 3 meters long breaking into the community, with its mouth wide open, and quickly approaching your home from time to time.
Your soul is almost scared away, your hands are shaking and dialing the crocodile hotline, anxiously waiting for the life-saving benefactor to come, preferably the super tough guy like Thor who subdues the beast to give you a full sense of security.
At this time, a large pickup truck arrived. Opening the car door, a middle-aged female people's teacher came with a rope, as if she was going to do some kind of work.
That's what Julie Hart does on a daily basis. Whenever she rushes to the scene, she is often greeted not with expectant eyes, but with doubt and disappointment, and whispering sarcasm.
The predator was cornered against the barbed wire fence of the garbage truck parking lot and let out a deep roar to deter Hart from trying to come.
Hart changed his tools and threw the noose three times to catch the crocodile.
The crocodile wagged desperately, and Hart quickly tightened the rope around its neck and dragged it to the center of the field. The crowd of onlookers and the driver of the garbage truck scattered like children on the playground.
When she jumped on the predator's back, grabbed its large mouth, and wrapped it tightly with black electrical tape, everyone present was stunned. No one dared to disagree anymore.
This is a classic crocodile hunting event reported by the media in 09. Julie Hart, who speaks with strength, has been protecting the safety of the local people for 20 years.
(Crocodile Hunter Julie)
Angel Boily, who serves as the Inspector Coordinator at the Navy's Family Service Center, is also a petite woman.
With five children, she is the fourth female alligator head hunter to be contracted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
Boyley has spent most of his life working with animals. She was a typical southern girl who learned to shoot at the age of 10 or so.
Her uncle gave her a small 22 rifle, which she used to go deer hunting with her friends, before she was in high school.
(Schematic diagram of a small 22 rifle)
As she grew older, she began working at the Big Bend Wildlife Refuge in Florida. That's when she learned how to deal with reptiles like crocodiles. After learning about the crocodile catcher's recruitment, she felt she should take it a step further.
When Angel Boyy first received the call, she was excited and scared. It took her and her seniors two hours to haul the crocodile onto the truck, even though it was a small crocodile more than a meter long.
When Angel Boyy first received the call, she was excited and scared. It took her and her seniors two hours to haul the crocodile onto the truck, even though it was a small crocodile more than a meter long.
Uniforming the crocodile gave Angel Boyy a sense of accomplishment. Due to the nature of her work, she continues to educate the community of Navy families about crocodile habits and share hunting recruitment information.
At the age of 17, she became Boily's second-in-command, and the family added a crocodile catcher heir. During this time, the daughter met her fiancé, who was also a catcher.
Today, the Angel Boyy family is known locally as a family of crocodile hunters. More and more people are joining their ranks and are starting to learn about the crocodile business and treat the land better.
When Arianne Prevost posted the huge crocodile she caught, many sour people in the comment area complained about her posing for a show.
"It's a huge crocodile that's almost 4 meters long and weighs 450 pounds, how could such a delicate girl be subdued. I want to know it on my toes. ”
Not with his bare hands, of course, and not with a gun, Arianne Prevost chose to use a crossbow.
It was crocodile hunting season one year, and Arianne Prevost and her boyfriend were conducting multiple reconnaissance in the St. Johns River Marshes.
One evening, the two men lurked for a long time, and in the end, Arianne successfully subdued the crocodile with two accurate shots from 13 feet and 15 feet away.
She and her boyfriend struggled to drag the crocodile out. It was this huge crocodile that scared the little couple who realized it later.
Such a big prey is not allowed to show off. Arianne confidently leaves multiple beautiful photos, and the trolls have to go berserk with incompetence.
There are quite a few female catchers like this. Since the beginning of grandparents Julie Hart, girls have been inspired to pass on the legacy, and catching crocodiles is no longer a tough guy affair.
In the eyes of the girls, this is the same as domesticating the beast, and the natural spirit of the animal makes them willing to try and really feel the meaning.
You can understand it as a realistic version of the big Disney heroine. The girls in the movie can talk to animals, but subduing the crocodile is the magic that the girls use to act.
The alligator hunt is part of the FWC Committee's planning and is a sustainable ecological action that takes place within reasonable management.
The hunters do not hunt at will, but act as a mediator between man and nature, so that the crocodiles do not harm humans, and humans can live in harmony with the crocodiles.
This is the heroic posture of the hunters of the new era, which has to be admired.