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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: the legal principal of owning or introducing a wild animal to your property --

While Disney did not own the alligator, I think it could be reasonably argued that creating a man made lake that connects to natural water ways and mimics the habitat of alligators, then essentially permitting guests to feed these animals could amount to an introduction of these animals to Disney property.

Disney did not *have* to create a beach environment on its property.  It could have paved the whole thing.

Now maybe a giant slab of concrete would not have been as attractive outside its resort and a business decision was made to create a lake.  But at that point, wildlife was introduced to the property.[/quote]

I'm not sure that Disney could have paved the whole thing.  It's a swamp.  You can't just drain a swamp, the water has to go somewhere.  I'm guessing that the needed a body of water contain what was previously in the swamp, but the water that was there and the alligators that were there.

I'll also say that this feeding the alligators problem is something that seems to be linked to the villas over the water at the Polynesian, which opened in 2015.  That problem may or may not have made the alligators more bold, but it didn't introduce the animals to Disney.  Alligators have been at Disney for many years, probably since it was opened.[/quote]

I agree that it could be argued they introduced the gators to this beach area where they invited people to be very near the water, and failed to warn about possibility of gators. That's definitely an argument I'd make in this case. It's not a zero sum situation - since gators would have been on Disney property somewhere, there's no liability that they were at this man made beach which gave them a path to be near large groups of people from other states and countries who are not like all these native Floridians who like to remind us on every page of this thread that [i]they[/i] all know gators can be present in any body of water. [/quote]

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