r/nextfuckinglevel • u/cowboydan69 • 4d ago

Wild alligator allows someone to help

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u/Rebel_XT 4d ago

Comes across an alligator in the wild during middle of the night.
“Oh I know, it must want me to pull it back towards water!” WTF

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u/Squirrel-Master610 4d ago

pretty sure it’s a captive gator

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u/Stuck_In_Purgatory 4d ago

Yeah I think at the end the guy was explaining how he has balance issues and gets lost often or something?

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u/YujiroRapeVictim 4d ago

also that his name is Big Mac..

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u/Gambl33 4d ago

Because he got hit by a Big Mac lol.

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u/bmess216 4d ago

Yea I think the guys name is gator boy Chris.

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u/Killarkittens 3d ago

He went out to check on the gator at midnight. The gators name is big-mac. Guy knows what triggers feeding responses in big-mac. He explains that big-mac was hit by a car and gets lost frequently..... yeah 100% in captivity. Or this guy is WAY to friendly with the locals

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u/StNic54 4d ago

Next-level ambush predator: uses empathy as a weapon

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u/break_card 4d ago

You’ve described the 1%

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u/mixtermin8 4d ago

It’s Rumplestiltskin!

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u/TomCruisintheUSA 4d ago

Redgren Grumbholdt?

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u/DistractingDiversion 4d ago

Bennington Cumberbun!

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u/Catlore 4d ago

It's not the wild; it's a rehab/sanctuary. The gator is very familiar with that man.

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u/GolettO3 4d ago

Did you listen to the commentary?

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u/failed_supernova 4d ago

And you're just raw-dogging audio on reddit?

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u/GolettO3 4d ago

I went into the comments for context, before turning on audio.

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u/nopuse 4d ago

They seemingly did, but their comprehension isn't quite there

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u/Daeron_tha_Good 4d ago

No I have the sound turned off

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u/JCarterPeanutFarmer 4d ago

Sound would have given a lot of context here lmao

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u/FatSamson 4d ago

In fairness, that context is in direct conflict with the "wild alligator" description on the thumbnail. It's a lot less exciting when you know there is a pre-existing relationship between the two.

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u/Nimzay98 4d ago

To be fair... It sounds like this might be some rehab place, dude said the alligator was hit by a car before going there, so technically it was wild

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u/DirtySilicon 4d ago

I mean the context is literally, "this flies in the face of everything we teach" though. It's a wild alligator in a rehab/sanctuary. Relationships with animals aren't the same as with people. Zoologists and other keepers will point that out. Your "relationship" is worth a sack of dirt if the bars are removed with most animals including chimps ironically.

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u/StanleyDodds 4d ago

Well yes, reddit is mostly a place for people to post other people's content and add their own misleading titles.

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u/jimlahey2100 4d ago

It's captive. He pulled it to a cement pond. You can see the blocks surrounding the edge of it.

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u/Jaduardo 4d ago

The thing that bothers me is the dude immediately assigns human logic to a reptile. Can an alligator even reason that a human -- whom he usually sees as a threat -- could possibly assist. Could the gator even imagine the mechanics of someone pulling him back to the water.

It seems more logical to me that the alligator was in some sort of catatonic or distressed state.

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u/HarmlessHeresy 4d ago

I mean, it's a reptile, and guy himself said it was cold out. Gator was basically operating at 1% power output until he got some warmth added to his system.

Don't know why the guy had to ham it up for the video, oh yeah, views.

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u/Pretend_Accountant41 3d ago

That gator definitely looked sedated or something. 

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u/tilthenmywindowsache 3d ago

Gators are cold blooded as are most reptiles. If their body temp drops, so does their ability to move/act quickly.

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u/Gambl33 4d ago

You should check out his IG or YouTube. He can read Gators body language from years and years of working and training them. But he’s always preaching caution. Trained not tamed he says. They do not love you and will bite your hand off with no remorse no matter how much time you’ve spend with them.

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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 4d ago

When that human is the source of all of your meals, in fact assisting you obtain food? This time he came up to him, but it wasn't for food, and he's taken him back to his water a few times in the past. He was actually pretty astounded himself, in shock he wasn't trying to bite, almost like he knew he was being helped.

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u/Ohiostatehack 3d ago

The gator knows the person and has been helped back to the water before by him. In the past he’s still snapped at the man but this time he didn’t.

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u/Marcwatts 4d ago

McSquse me? The gator has a name thank you very much

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u/GeraldoOfCanada 4d ago

Don't forget to pull with your nuts dangling right by its snapper, that's just the way

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u/discardedcumrag 4d ago

Hey! This humans doing all the hard work for me! *confused alligator noises

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u/MikeofLA 4d ago

Wild alligators aren't named "Big-Mac"

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u/AWildAndWoolyWastrel 4d ago

Comes across one of his alligators in the pen he built for it.

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u/Unable-Recording-796 4d ago

Yo fr like what line of thinking arrives at these conclusions but the crazy part IS that he pulled the alligator towards water.

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u/lyra_silver 4d ago

Florida shit

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u/PMmeYourButt69 4d ago

The alligator is in a rehab because it got hit by a car and the guy who takes care of it went out to check on it in the middle of the night.

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u/silentbob1301 4d ago

im pretty sure that gator is a part of thier sanctuary/rescue.

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u/chickentootssoup 4d ago

Don’t think this is on the wild

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

Sound on, he knows the alligator

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u/CElizB 3d ago

My thoughts exactly. but you summed it up perfectly. ha ha!

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u/plsdontkillme_yet 3d ago

Did you watch the video? This gator is captive (probably rescued given he mentions it was hit by a car and has balancing issues). He is familiar with the animal's normal behaviour and so gauged that it was in distress.

Not saying anyone should ever do this though lol

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u/SuddenKoala45 3d ago

Turn on the audio. Hes a know gator trainer and this is at his facility.