Jungle Babies from The Rainforest Cafe

Jungle Babies
Rainforest Cafe
Pop Art

This postcard features an alligator, gorilla, sloth, tiger, black panther (cougar), monkey, orangutan and a bird.  It is postmarked in 2015.

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Rainforest Cafe is a themed restaurant chain. The first location opened in the Mall of America in Minnesota, USA on February 3, 1994.

Each Rainforest Cafe restaurant is designed to depict some features of a tropical rainforest, including plant growth, mist, waterfalls and figures of rainforest animals. Some of the animals are animatronic and start making animals noises and move.  My favorite part of these restaurants is when there is a 'rain storm' inside.  All the lights dim and there is 'lightning' and then it starts to rain inside the restaurant.  Not on the customers, only in parts by the walls. But it is very fun.  Our family loved to eat here when we visited Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. 

An Alligator in an Advertisement for State Farm Insurance

John Woolard is brave, but he doesn't take chances when rescuing alligators...on the back...Life is risky enough, don't take a chance with your auto insurance.
2001

An Alligator in Florida - Get Wild

Florida gators like Albert can grow to 20 feet and weigh as much as 1000 pounds.  more passive than commonly portrayed, they inhabit most of Florida's inland lakes and swamps.
1994

Exaggeration Postcard: Florida Alligator

All the way from Florida

The Alligator is a native of the Florida Everglades.  For some time its skin has been fashionably used in the manufacture of bags, shoes, etc., and with this increasing use they had been hunted until they ere almost extinct.  To remedy this situation and supply the demand, several thriving Alligator farms are now in operation, where the breeding and care of alligators is the main industry.
1966

A Crocodile Standing

Crocodile

This postcard was printed in France, sent from Finland in 2008.

Alligators in Everglades, Florida

Everglades National Park
American alligators roam widely through the Everglades Wetlands during the summer rainy season, and concentrate around drying pools during the winter and spring dry season.  They feed opportunistically on whatever aquatic animals are locally most common including fish, crayfish, turtles, apple snails, water birds and small mammals.

Photographer - Glenn van Nimwegen
2009

Mama Don't Allow by Thacher Hurd

Mama Don't Allow - 1984 by Thacher Hurd, Miles and the Swamp Band Playing at the Alligator Ball, 1984, watercolor; collection of Thacher Hurd.

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Mama Don't Allow - 1984 by Thacher Hurd, Alligators Dancing at the Aligator Ball, 1984, watercolor; collection of Thacher Hurd.

Both postcards were bought in Florida at the Orlando Museum of Art.

Wonders of America #6. Largest Reptile, American Alligator

Largest Reptile - American Alligator

Most adult male alligators are about 11 feet long and weigh 450 to 600 pounds.  The largest gator on record, however, measured more than 19 feet in length.  Alligators are found in swamps, marshes, rivers, and lakes from Texas to the Carolinas.

From the Set:

Wonders of America
Coloring Postcards

10 Jumbo Postcards - 10 Commemorative Stamps
The biggest reptile, the largest glacier, the tallest cactus and more .... have fun learning about them in postcards.  Each card features art  from the exciting new USPS Wonders of America Stamps.  Color the postcards, and use the matching stamps enclosed to mail them to friends!
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Here is the matching stamp...

Alligator in 3D

American Alligator - Alligator mississippiensis
Mississippi-Alligaotr  - Aligator americano
Alligator d'Amérique

This 3D postcard bought in 2014.  It was printed in Germany, but bought in the USA. 

Florida Everglades National Park - Heron Bird and Alligator

The Florida Everglades is one of the largest parks in the United States, preserving the wildlife.  Pictured are the popular airboat rides, the Great White Heron, and the tempting Alligator.

Photo: Warren Flagler
Insert: Larry Lipsky
2010

Alligator from Sawgrass Recreation Park in the Florida Everglades

Sawgrass Recreation Park
This postcard features a baby alligator.
2013

My girlfriend and I went for the day.  We had a lot of fun!  The airboat ride was fast, we saw close up alligators and turtles.  There was a lot of rain recently, so the birds were not there.  We toured the 'zoo' area after and held an alligator, that was fun too.


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Visit Ft. Lauderdale’s greatest airboat attraction, Sawgrass Recreation Park. Embark on a thrilling airboat tour through the Florida Everglades. Our exhibits feature timed shows where you can hold an alligator and visit magnificent mammals such as the Florida Panther or the Black Leopard. Picnic areas, birthday parties, camping, rv parking. Exclusive private and nighttime airboat tours are now available year round! Open 7 days a week! Just 25 minutes from the heart of Ft. Lauderdale!

Set of Three Postcards to Make An Alligator

Souvenir of St. Augustine, Florida

I send you herewith the head of a Gator,

Watch for the mail - it will bring more later.

This city is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in North America.  St. Augustine was founded in 1565 by Don Pedro Menendez of Aviles, Spain who was sent to protect the Spanish Treasure fleets sailing along the coast of Florida.

Two-thirds I am here, in body and soul,

The next is the last and the Gator is whole.

St. Augustine, Florida

A stone fortress was built by the Spanish to protect St. Augustine from English expansion.  Construction of Castillo de San Marcos started in 1672 making it the oldest masonry fortification in the United States.  It stands today as a symbol of Spain's early colonization of our country.

This is the last Card I send you by mail,

The end of the Gator and then end of the "tale."

St. Augustine, Florida

To learn more about this "Tale" and others, visit the St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park.  You can see 23 species of crocodilians, rare white alligators, exotic birds, and mammals.  Wildlife shows every hour 10 am to 5 pm.

All three postcards are printed in 2007 but postmarked in 2013.

Animals of Pantanal Matogrossense in Brazil

Pantanal Matogrossense (Pantanal)
Santuario Ecologico (Ecological Sanctuary)

Aspectos do Pantanal

Fotos: Sirnay Moro e Embratur

featuring birds, parrots, monkeys, alligators, a capybara and a  tapir

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The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and the world's largest wetland of any kind. It lies mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul but extends into Mato Grosso as well as into portions of Bolivia and Paraguay, sprawling over an area estimated at between 140,000 square kilometers (54,000 sq mi) and 195,000 square kilometers (75,000 sq mi).

80% of the Pantanal floodplains are submerged during the rainy seasons, nurturing an astonishing biologically diverse collection of aquatic plants and helping support a dense array of animal species.

The name "Pantanal" comes from the Portuguese word pântano, meaning wetland, bog, swamp or marsh. By comparison, the Brazilian highlands are locally referred to as the planalto, plateau or, literally, high plain.

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Alligator and Baby at the Lion Country Safari

North American Wildlife

American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
The alligator is the largest reptile in North America.  It is found in fresh marshes and basks on muddy banks or drifts in the water like a log.  It is distinguished from the crocodile by a broad snout.
Photographers - Tom and Pat Lesson

Lion Country Safari
2013

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Lion Country Safari is a drive-through safari park located in Loxahatchee (near West Palm Beach), in Palm Beach County, Florida. Founded in 1967, it claims to be the first 'cageless zoo' in the United States.
In 2009, USA Travel Guide named Lion Country the 3rd best zoo in the nation.

Disney's Animal Kindom, Kilimanjaro Safari, Elephants & Ride

Disney's Animal Kingdom
Kilimanjaro Safaris

An open-air safari vehicle takes you on an exciting expedition through an African savannah.  Animals like giraffes, gazelles, elephants, rhinos and lions freely roam the acres of land, rivers and rocky hills.
2010

Florida's Alligators, Up Close

Florida's Alligators
Up Close and Personal

At home in the swamp or on the lawn, Florida's alligators now number roughly one million.
2006

Alligator Salute, See You Later

See you Later
Alligator

A Florida Gator Salute
Big, Wide, and ready

Alligators in Ace Venture, When Nature Calls

Jim Carrey

Ace Ventura
Operacion Africa (My guess is 'When Nature Calls' looses it's true meaning in the translation)

Nuevos Animals (New Animals)
Nuevas Aventuras (New Adventures)
Mismo Pelo (Same Hair)
1995

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Africa's the place and Ace is on the case, setting out to rescue an animal he loathes: a bat! Jim Carrey returns as Ace, the alligator-wrasslin', elephant-calling, monkeyshining, loogie-launching, burning coals-crossing, disguise-mastering pet detective.

Some Ace quotes:

Your request is not unlike your lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger.

Friends, rodents, quadrupeds, lend me your rears!

If you were me, then I'd be you, and I'd use *your* body to get to the top.

It is the mucus that binds us.

Disney's Animal Kingdom - Kilimanjaro Safari

Kilimanjaro Safaris
Climb aboard your open-sided safari vehicle for an exciting expedition through an African savannah.  Animals like giraffes, gazelles, elephants, rhinos and lions roam freely.  Watch out for poachers too!

Disney's Animal Kingdom
Walt Disney World
2009
This is from a Disney Postcard Booklet with 9 postcards in it.

Alligator in Florida

See Yah Later Alligator!
Florida

Come in ... the water is fine!
2012