A large alligator lunged at deputies after flooding in Florida saw the reptile end up on a driveway in Florida.

Indian River County Sheriff's Office were called to a home in Sebastian on November 9 and managed to wrangle to gator and safely move it to a wilder area of the county.

The sheriff’s office believe recent flooding displaced a lot of wildlife from their natural habitats.

Southern parts of the Sunshine State were hit with record rainfall in early November with some counties seeing up to 20 inches of rain in just 12 hours.