An alligator doesn’t stop being an alligator because you show a movie in its habitat. A gorilla in a zoo is still a gorilla. It can be easy for families to take a false sense of security from ...

gorillas, snakes, and lions. But at Choke Canyon Reservoir, gators are everywhere — and most of them are mature, meaning they are huge. Some of these alligators can grow even longer than 14 feet ...