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More than one million alligators are estimated to be swimming in Florida waters. State wildlife officials said they're especially aggressive right now.

Police arrested a 44-year-old Florida man this week after he was found trying to cross the Atlantic ocean is a human-sized hamster wheel.

Just at the moment Eric Merda realised he might have only seconds left to live, his folly of wading into a Florida lake at dusk was rewarded with a truly grisly fate.

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Eric Merda meant to go exploring, but ended up in what he described as a nightmare survival story.

• Mark Norman, a folklorist, explained, "Its a very old and well-established tradition, but not something thats very well-known," as many outsiders were puzzled by the news that Englands royal beekeeper had informed the queens bees, considered members of the family, that the queen had died.

Eric Merda was attacked by an alligator while at Manatee Fish Camp in Myakka City, Florida. The alligator tore off his right arm, but he was able to survive for three days before getting rescued.

Eric Merda went for a swim in a Florida lake - and barely survived what happened next.

Eric Merda, 43, fought to survive in Florida swampland.

Staggering, naked and bleeding heavily, Eric Merda lived on flowers and marsh water during agonising journey to safety