TERREBONNE PARISH, LA – AUGUST 28: A dead alligator sits in the boat after being hunted in bayou waters in Terrebonne Parish near Houma, Louisiana on August 28, 2019. Wednesday is the first day of Louisiana’s alligator hunting season, which runs for only 30 days. According to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Louisiana’s combination of rising waters and sinking land give it one of the highest rates of relative sea level rise on the planet. Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost over 2,000 square miles of land and wetlands, an area roughly the size of Delaware. In the past 30 years, as subsidence continues and the effects of climate change increase, Louisiana has been losing its coastal landscape at the rate of almost a football fields worth of land every hour. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
[Drew Angerer / Staff] via Getty ImagesThe Mexican Mayor, Victor Hugo Sosa married an alligator bride as a ceremony that has date back centuries! They do this hoping that it will bring good fortune to the fishing community in their small village.
The gator he married is 7-year-old and is named Princess. During the wedding, the mayor kissed Princess, which they had to tie her snout close, just in case she decided to snap at him!
They say the marriage between the local leader and the alligator symbolizes a connection between both humans and the "divine"
The gator received the greatest treatment. She was carried through the village and was fanned by men with hats and fans.
We have more on this story and other weird and wacky stories in today's Other News!
