Sweet tooth: Florida alligator caught swiping watermelon

[...] one large gator with an apparent sweet tooth was recently photographed sliding into a canal with a whole watermelon clamped in its jaws.

"Gator caught stealing watermelon out of watermelon field in Hendry County," a Florida Agricultural Crimes Intelligence Unit officer wrote May 13 on the group's Facebook page.

The photo stunned Steve Stiegler, a wildlife biologist in the alligator management program at the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

[...] on the Facebook post of the gator watermelon thief, several people reminisced about tossing marshmallows to gators in Florida.