The video—taken at Lake Apopka, Orange County, by Meagan Tallman—shows an alligator lurking in the swamp with the dead alligator’s tail clamped in its jaws.
The alligator then begins moving, dragging the dead alligator around the swamp.
“The other [alligator] is dragging him around to eat him,” Tallman can be heard saying in the video.
The alligator then moves towards the river bank, and looks as if he may drag his prey up on the bank. However he seems to think twice about it, and then continues swimming around the swamp.
A picture shows the alligator dragging another dead alligator around in its mouth in a Florida lake. Meagan Tallman/Getty
There had been a previous brawl over this dead alligator, someone can be heard saying in the video.
Florida is home to around 1.3 million alligators. They live all over the state in marshlands and swamps.
Lake Apopka is one of the largest lakes in Florida. People can take wildlife drives around the lake.
There are many alligators lurking in the lake and they are commonly seen swimming there.
The dead alligator appears white in color. After Tallman posted the video to Facebook, some people were confused, believing it to be an albino.
However this alligator had just been dead a really long time. The dead alligator also appears very bloated, signaling that it had been dead for a while.
In a comment to the video, Tallman said it had looked “quite decayed.” Newsweek asked Tallman for comment.
It is likely that this alligator was already dead when the others began fighting over the easy meal.
It is not uncommon for alligators to eat other alligators, and the species is often observed being cannibalistic.
Alligators may eat and kill each other for multiple reasons.
That is when she saw the huge alligator tenderizing its meal in a brutal attack.