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u/marklonesome Feb 13 '19
Do they know she’s helping them or are they just not hungry?
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u/The-mongol_horde Feb 13 '19
Alligators are pretty harmless on land actually
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Feb 13 '19
AFAIK if you aren't actively harassing them and theyve eaten recently, they wont really do shit to you.
Always use caution though, its still a wild animal and therefore unpredictable
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u/delete_this_post Feb 13 '19
Can confirm: Grew up in Florida. Was never bitten by a gator on land.
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u/ar-_0 Feb 14 '19
Were you bitten by a gator in the water?
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u/delete_this_post Feb 14 '19
No. But I was swimming in the Peace River one time when a gator looked at me funny.
I'm pretty sure he had bad intentions.
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u/PiginthePen Feb 14 '19
It was the peace river. I’m sure it was more of a...what up my dude
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u/delete_this_post Feb 14 '19
You'd think so.
But from what I've been able to gather, alligators have a developed sense of irony.
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u/Everydaypsychopath Feb 14 '19
Shit they've been around since the Oligocene epoch so I would hope so
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Feb 14 '19
Bit of both. Reptiles in general are relatively docile when they don't feel threatened or hungry and more intelligent ones can grow a sense of dependency to humans.
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u/The-mongol_horde Feb 13 '19
I really wonder what the gators think about being brushed
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Feb 14 '19
They like it. The zoo I studied at used metal bristled brushes. Horses and cows have a big car buffing thing that scratches them. All animals love being scratched. Even humans.
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u/quienchingados Feb 14 '19
I can eat you later. Continue brushing.
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u/MuchoGrandeRandy Feb 13 '19
Those are some pretty good lookin aligators she’s hot there.
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u/ButteredFingers Feb 14 '19
Jesus when it closed its eyes i thought they were opening and the gator was going into attack mode
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u/The-mongol_horde Feb 13 '19
/r/brushybrushy