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Gatorland

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Gatorland is a 110 acre wildlife attraction and amusement park in the Southchase area of Orlando, Florida, founded in 1949 by Owen Godwin on former ranching property and still family-owned. The park is both a theme park and a nature preserve, home to thousands of alligators, including rare leucistic alligators, and crocodiles, along with many other animals, and it offers a boardwalk over breeding marshes, zip-lining, swamp vehicle tours, a miniature railroad, animal feeding and wrestling demonstrations, an aviary and petting areas. Gatorland also serves a conservation role by buying alligators from trappers that would otherwise be slaughtered commercially, and it operates a satellite exhibit at the nearby Gaylord Palms resort in Kissimmee. Its breeding marsh appeared in the filming of the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1949 1
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1. Wikipedia: Gatorland
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