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The Inertia

Hurricane Irma has left devastation in its path across the Caribbean and Southern Florida, as has Hurricane Harvey in Texas. But it has also created another interesting conundrum: dangerous wildlife fleeing the storm and seeking shelter in city streets.

On Monday, the Florida Department of Health sent out a tweet warning people about dangerous wildlife that may be roaming the streets of people’s home towns. And a man filmed a rather large alligator in Melbourne, Florida over the weekend.

Thankfully, places like “Gatorland, a Florida wildlife reserve and home to an assortment of reptiles and poisonous snakes sent out a release reassuring the public that none of its animals had escaped as the entity moved its animals indoors prior to Irma making landfall.

Many less-dangerous species of wildlife have also had a rough go of it. The Wildlife Center of Texas has apparently been inundated with calls about deer, squirrels, birds of prey and waterfowl being overwhelmed or stranded by the flooding.

 
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