This morning we headed over to the Savannah River Site for the last time. We visited the University of Georgia's onsite ecology lab. We got to see and hold, bull frogs, turtles, snakes, a gopher tortoise, baby alligators, and a legless lizard (yes, he's supposed to be legless). We also got up close and personal with a snapping turtle, a bigger baby alligator and some venomous snakes. We later went outside to the turtle and alligator ponds. The yellow bellied sliders were being quarantined because they had been exposed to industrial pollutants. And then there was the big gator. Their biggest male gator is 13 feet long and weighs over 600 pounds. They feed him whole opossums...pretty gross to watch. It was a really fun way to wrap up our time at SRS. I think we should've spent more time at the ecology lab over the course of the internship.
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