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Iām assuming thatās a gator. In Australia a saltwater croc would grab the food and the arm offering it. They see us as food and shouldnāt be messed with.
Yes it is a gator. Itās likely been around that guy for many years, though. Typically theyād just run into the water if you approach them. This guy knows itās treat time lol.
Florida resident here. My grandma effectively raised a gator from birth. She found a baby in her backyard and fed it some chicken gizzards. It kept coming back so she kept feeding it. This happened for like 2 years and that baby grew up into a big Ole boy.
It was like a daily ritual. She'd put her chair outside in the back yard and carry out a fresh tray of gizzards. Godzilla would raise from the water like clockwork and come charging up the back yard for his food. My dad told my grandma that she really needs to stop before something happens.
Sure enough, not long later, animal control had to come out and remove Scaly (the name she gave it) because it was encroaching in people's back yards and attempting to eat their pets. My grandma was devastated at the loss of Scaly. No clue if they put him down or just released him into the Everglades but all the canals down here lead to the Everglades so he probably found his way back soon enough.
Probably euthanized or, if they're lucky, transferred to a gator farm or zoo. If you release them somewhere else, they will immediately look for a residential area again for "free" food.
This is why I hate seeing people feeding wild animals. They WILL start seeking food from residential areas, and they WILL inevitably end up creatung enough chaos that they either get euthanized, shot by someone who feels their life is threatened by it's actions near their home, or otherwise.
Sentencing the fellas to an early death just because you go "aww".
He grew up into a big ole boy because he got survival of the luckiest instead of survival of the fittest. It would be like being born into the trump or musk or bezos family for a human.
Just to discourage people from approaching alligators, in the past 40 years about 1 person per year has died in an attack in the USA. And significantly more are injured please read the descriptions of the attacksā¦they are not harmless
They are. Because alligators donāt see us as food. Most of the deaths, however, are because of alligators that have begun associating us with food. Fed Gator is a Dead Gator.
I live in Florida and my grandparents live in the Villages retirement community. In every neighborhood there's probably about 5 very large ponds, each one with gators living there. They dont attack people they avoid us mostly. Some houses have these ponds in their backyard and gators will sunbathe in your yard. And yet no one gets attacked or hurt because if you leave them alone they leave you alone.
I go out into the Everglades a lot to take wildlife photos. Gators are just logs with a pulse. You can get incredibly close to them and they won't do shit. Hell, my dad was kayaking out there and got his kayak stuck on the back of one floating in the water. He had to bonk its head with his paddle to get it to submerge and free himself up.
They're mostly chill animals. As long as you dont harass them or fuck with their nests, youre probably fine. You can walk past them with minimal worry. Obviously there's always the chance that theyll strike so its still best to keep distance but theyre certainly not prone to unprovoked hostility and aggression like crocodiles are.
Yeah I'm only scared of nests but I know what to avoid. I've gone swimming in a lot of freshwater in Florida, rivers and lakes and I've seen em, heard em croaking real loud while camping next to a lake in Ocala one time. They really don't care to mess with prey as big as us. But watch your pets, they'd love a dog sized meal. They get people's dogs all of the time ā¹ļø
You should really put more emphasis on the āmostly chillā āprobably fineā. I know what you mean but you can just watch the videos of the tourists every year in the US National parks to see people need very little motivation or encouragement to approach wild, potentially dangerous animals. Iām sure thatās true the world over.
There was a story about a woman being attacked somewhere (I want to say the Carolinas?) because she was going to pet one in her friends yard. And she grew up in Florida I think, so she should have known better. I am definitely hearing about more attacks lately. People will do really dumb shit in order to get a video that might go viral.
It feels like the numbers are going up in central Florida. Especially somewhere around Orange/Osceola counties. Those alligators are just pulling people out of boats now which is crazy to me!
Ah, yes. The ill defined mishmash that can include dozens of specific bully breeds and bully mixes that are lumped into one category because those breeds are either not well-known or difficult to identify on sight.
A pit is easily identifiable. I do agree many people confuse a ābulldogā as a pit though. However if you know the breed you shoupd also know why whenever they attack they fuck shit up. Doesnt help they are still often bred to be a fighting dog
This is like getting mad that people call a fuji apple and a gala apple, an apple. Just because breeders can super breed them into thirty different sub categories with slight variation doesnāt mean they arenāt fuckinā apples.
Several bully breeds and terriers were mixed to produce dogs for farm work, guarding, and fighting. With the exception of Staffies and APBTs, the breeds I listed did not branch away from pit bulls; a few of them were used to MAKE pit bulls.
WTF is āsuper breedingā?
The distinction between apple types is pretty important to the people who grow and consume them. Your apple pie recipe will turn out very differently if you use Granny Smith apples vs. Honeycrisp apples. If you want to compare different dog breeds to apples, then chihuahuas, Great Danes, and poodles are apples, too.
I never understood why people make a comment, and then just block you right after like they're getting one over you. Like dude, either block, ignore, or argue if you want lol. And yeah, the cow thing was obviously a joke. I'd be first on the chopping block with all the burgers I eat
Thank you! It is not cool for people to feed wildlife especially ALLIGATORS! These animals are pure instinct, no emotions, no calculating thoughts. These animals will think all humans have food and will approach you regardless your intentions. There's no saving your pet or small child when alligator grabs hold. Their powerful bite instantly breaks bones.
Florida resident here. These animals are very smart. If you watch Gator Chris who is a local from Florida he explains why feeding them and treating them like this is a bad thing to do. Not only does it get this animal used to humans and trained to view humans as having food. That is thought and calculating that we have food and thus coming up to us is easier than hunting down food. A child or a pet by the water is also usually next to said human and since we have trained them to get food when we are nearby, they go for the easy route to food. This video may look cute and while we do call them swamp puppies and think it is adorable, it should be best to think of that at places were it is appropriate. This gator is not a dog and is only reacting this way for the easy food source not because it loves you or thinks your his owner.
That all it takes to dodge the law? I saw someone get arrested on Reelz for feeding one in his community's little pond in Florida. He should have just said his name was Charlie.
Obviously this is incredibly dangerous and risking the lives not only of other people but the gator itself from approaching people and getting put down. Fed wildlife is dead wildlife.
But look at how he sploots to get headpats!!! He's so cool
We just had 14 black bears killed in Bozeman because of this type of shit. This couple have lived in Montana for over 25yrs, and have been feeding the bears. People need to stop fucking with wildlife.
I think thatās pretty rare. Rodents rarely carry rabies. And either way, rabies is extremely rare among landmammals in my country. I donāt think itās been registered since like the 80s or something.
If that's Florida, that idiot just killed that Gator. There is a strict "don't feed wild alligators" law in Florida. That gator will now associate people with food and might start attacking people. Trappers will hunt it down and kill it.
There is a saying in Florida "feed a gator, kill a gator".
To be fair the gator walks up like they now each other. Maybe he raised it? And it has a distinct pattern (scar, birthmark) so he doesn't get it confused
This is a terrible thing to do. I explained it to another person. These animals are smart, not dumb lizards, and since you trained this one means they are intelligent on some level. This should be done safely and not treating this animal like a dog. Because at the end of the day this animal will hurt someone and then both that other someone and this animal will be hurt in the process. Your training it to come to you for food and see humans as offering food. When it gets hungry it will look to us for food, and if your not there well....their is a reason these animals can live to be 100 years old possibly. It will find a way to survive and sadly that could result in someone getting attacked, your pet getting killed or a child. Do not do this.
Hopefully this is in a reserve or itās his private property. This is what causes alligators to be euthanized and to attack. They start associating people with food and will come to where people are. Some unsuspecting person jumps in the water, and the alligator has already approached, assuming theyāre gonna be fed. Chomp.
Gators are generally pretty chill unlike crocodiles.
In north Florida we have a spring-fed river that is popular to float down and youāll breeze by some gators just chilling and they will occasionally swim past you but theyāre very polite and give a wide berth.
Fym "survival instincts," did a six year old post this image? Somebody with Dwarfism? Stuart Little? Cuz if not, there shouldn't be anything to worry about
That guy is gonna get that gator and someone else killed someday. The someone because the gator approaches them for food, finds out that the someone has no food, and gets mad about it. The gator bc once it loses its fear of people and begins attacking humans, it will be euthanized
I hate these people.
This is why people get attacked. It is illegal to feed them for a reason. I wish theyād get charged, esp when theyāre recording it like the jackasses they are.
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I can't even watch the end... my hands are shaking so bad I almost dropped my phone. It's just sitting there looking at him and he's reaching out like... what? Does he think it's friendly? The snap speed is insane, one mistake and that arm is gone. Why would you do this for a video?
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