Most of the gators I see are in the rivers and ponds. If they kill they and their friends usually finish it. I was going to one of my trail cams and found a freshly dead deer couldn't have been there more than a day. Couldn't tell how it died but the vultures were already showing up so out of curiosity I kept going back about every four days I wanted to see how long it would take to completely go away. So with the heat, bugs, vultures, and so on it took less than two weeks. As for my estimate of 1000 BF in Florida that's probably high but I have found six different sets of footprints within a 10 mile area. In the last two weeks there have been two road crossings to the southeast of me in two different counties could be the same one but I doubt it. So I think we have a good population here.