Wow! Lots of deer stories. I hadn't thought of them, but we do have them here in south Florida. Perhaps I should be. I'm not too concerned with alligators. They tend to be more afraid of us than we are of them. My wife and I saw over 200 when cycling in Shark Valley, which is a 15 mile round trip bicycle path in the western part of the Everglades National Park. My wife (not a cyclist) asked me, "What do I do if I fall and a gator attacks me?"
Me, "Put your bike between you and the gator."
Wife, "That's all you've got???"
Me, "That's all I've got."
But seriously, we passed gators with their tails on the trail and others with their heads on the trail. They couldn't care less about us and the other cyclists. But others not on bicycles were on trams provided by the park. But I didn't see anybody walking that paved trail... I think for good reason.