College campuses can be wild places. But occasionally, the term can be applied pretty literally at institutions of higher learning — like when it refers to animals that find themselves in people-trafficked places.
Whether it’s a wandering moose or roving packs of wild boar, some universities in the U.S. must work to ensure that humans are aware and respectful of wild animals. That way, they can hopefully avoid incidents where coeds and critters collide.
In Florida, the University of Miami's Coral Gables campus encircles Lake Osceola, a freshwater man-made lake created in 1947. The lake is connected via canals to other freshwater bodies, as well as the saltwater Biscayne Bay. Everything from barracudas and turtles to manatees — as well as alligators, crocodiles and the Florida cottonmouth, a venomous, semi-aquatic pit viper — have been found in its waters.
Swimming here, as you’d probably suspect, is strictly prohibited by the ...
