If you’re out on a kayak, canoe, or boat, you just have to be aware of your surroundings and not approach these animals.”

A woman paddling in a Florida nature preserve was bitten on her arm by an alligator (not the one pictured), officials said. Photo by Dawn McDonald via Unsplash An alligator attacked a woman kayaking at a central Florida nature preserve,

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded to a report Monday that a woman was bitten on the elbow by an alligator while paddling at the Tiger Creek Preserve in Babson Park,