Life on the wild frontier

摘要

YOU CANT OUTSTARE an alligator. I've tried. It doesn't blink. Its stillness just amplifies the power of its armoured bulk and immense jaws. Only when it knows it has you beaten - or so it seems - will it push off from the lagoon shore, sinking beneath the water with arrogant slowness and leaving the memory of a protruding pair of eyes, a fleck of tail and an S-shaped swirl in the water.