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Southwest Florida runs the same last-mile logistics stack as the country. FedEx, UPS, Amazon DSP, USPS. Same vehicles, same scanners, same delivery windows. The ground underneath the route is different. Every residential development in Naples sits on engineered drainage tied into the Big Cypress Basin and the Everglades watershed. The surficial aquifer runs shallow here. Subdivisions from Tamiami Trail to the coast rely on man-made lakes, swales, and canals to manage wet-season runoff. Those waterways are habitat. A canal behind a Port Royal estate, a retention pond at the entrance of Pelican Bay, and a roadside ditch along Logan Boulevard are, from the animal's perspective, one continuous movement corridor. Naples is wildlife habitat with modern suburbia built on top of it. Residential delivery hours run 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. That window aligns with the daylight activity pattern of the American alligator. Alligators are ectothermic. They bask mid-morning in cooler months and shift toward early and late-day movement in warmer ones. The encounter follows thermal regulation and route timing. March through May is mating season, when adult males travel farther and become more visible in residential drainage across Collier and Lee counties. June through July is nesting season, when females construct mounds on canal banks and pond edges. August through October overlaps with tropical weather, and storm events redistribute animals throughout the regional waterway system. November through February is the dormant season, slowed but not stopped. A FedEx Ground driver in suburban Massachusetts manages weather, traffic, and dog encounters. A driver in suburban Naples manages all that plus an active subtropical predator landscape. Drivers who work these routes long enough form an informal field layer for an ecosystem that does not respect property lines. Southwest Florida is one of the few luxury real estate markets in the country where the drainage enabling the development is the same drainage the wildlife lives in. The route follows the same lines. #alligator #naplesflorida #southwestflorida #floridawildlife #colliercounty

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