The 230 kilogram heavy and over 3.5 meter long alligator could be retrieved after a drone captured a "fairly large" alligator in the picture.

The hunters then set up a trap for the animal, the size of which is described as being in the upper part of the scale for the area.

- This alligator will no longer terrorize or hunt or kill anyone else.

This shows how dangerous it is in the waters here, says Lance Vitter at the local police in St Tammany to the New Orleans Advocate.

After killing the alligator and splitting the abdomen, the hunters found what are believed to be human body parts in the stomach.

These are to be examined and for the sake of the man's family it is hoped to be able to identify the victim.

"Hopefully the family can get some kind of settlement now," Sheriff Randy Smith told the newspaper.

It was on August 30 that the man believed to have been killed by the alligator was attacked outside his home.

The storm Ida, then classified as a hurricane, had caused major flooding on his property and he would review the damage.

His wife saw how the 71-year-old man was attacked and she had to take a boat to first try to help him himself, and then to get help.

When she returned, her husband had disappeared.

The man is already counted as one of the 33 people who died during or in connection with the storm Ida in Louisiana.

See clips on how alligators' thinking works:

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Hear Mathias Osvath talk about how the alligators, among other things, listen to their names in the clip.