An absolute unit.
An alligator recently taken by a hunter in South Carolina held the missing puzzle pieces to several mysterious dog disappearances within the contents of its gut.
As staff at Cordray’s Butcher Shop just outside of Charleston butchered the gator, they discovered the undigested metal tags from 5 different dogs inside of the monstrous reptile.
The names and phone numbers on two of the dog tags were still legible, and after contacting one of the numbers it was discovered that the dog disappeared on a deer hunting trip almost 25 years ago.
Also inside of the 12-foot long, 445-pound gator was a brass jacket from a bullet, a sparkplug from a car, and an entire collection of turtle shells and bobcat claws.
The stomach contents provide an interesting look at the opportunistic and terrifying dietary habits of a predator so perfect that the species has not ecologically evolved in millions of years.