Another amphibious doc. The Everglades. It doesn't know if it's a river, a swamp, a prairie, or some other shit. This is a departure from the previous documentaries featured in my Wet Files™ because the guy who narrates this one definitely does action movie trailers which makes sense because Florida. This documentary really feels very Florida somehow. Like of course it does because it's all in Florida, but there's something else Floridian about it too. Something intangible.
I learned that alligators excavate their own little pools in the everglades. I don't know if they do that elsewhere or if it's just an everglades thing. I'm still learning more about alligators and crocodiles even now after watching them so much already. Anyway, they make these pools to lure in big fish because the everglades can be really shallow, and a deep pool is tempting for them so they aggregate there. It also helps the gator stay hydrated when it gets dry which apparently the everglades do.
It's not all alligators. This doc was fairly light on alligators considering it's the everglades. Also featured are the declining raccoons, small swimming deer, egrets, fishes, sharks, horsehoe crabs, invasive pythons, non-horseshoe crabs, and weirdo turtles.