Raccoon Chills on Alligator for a Second, Isn't Worried About It
“Let’s cruise, baby!” - Florida man snaps picture of raccoon riding a gator: http://t.co/Y9WWzL2xvD via @WFTV pic.twitter.com/AR1E7ZTwZN
June 14, 2015
On Sunday morning, Florida man Richard Jones took this photograph of a raccoon standing on an alligator’s back in Ocala National Forest, WFTV 9 reports.
Jones said his son, while walking along the Ocklawaha River, startled the raccoon, which jumped onto the gator in the water nearby.
“I snapped a lucky picture right when the gator slipped into the water and before the raccoon jumped off and scurried away. Without the context you’d think the raccoon was hitching a ride across the river. Pretty amazing,” Jones wrote in an email to WFTV. “Definitely the photo of a lifetime.”
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