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VIDEO: Momma alligator fiercely defends nest
New video shows an alligator fiercely hissing and clawing her way through a fence to get to her nest.
FORT MEADE, Fla. - As students at a Central Florida high school embarked on their first day back to school, they were encountered by a rather unconventional classmate – a lost alligator.
A small alligator was found in one of the dugouts at the softball field at Fort Meade Middle-Senior High School on Friday, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook.
A school resource deputy helped remove the alligator from the school's campus.
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"In other words, he provided a little gator-aid," the sheriff's office said about the responding deputy.