It's spring and alligators are on the move -- and they are hungry.
A famished gator will swallow just about anything, live or dead.
A plastic toy turtle and a G.I. Joe action figure caused the recent death of a 9-foot-long alligator in the Florida Keys. State wildlife officials said the toys were lodged in the gator's intestines.
A 2004 study of alligator diets in three Central Florida lakes -- Apopka, Griffin and Woodruff -- found toys, golf balls, fishing lures, shotgun shells, a lighter, spark plugs and glass.
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