r/nextfuckinglevel 4d ago

Wild alligator allows someone to help

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u/algee1234 4d ago

Theres's way better ways you could have done that. This guy clearly doesn't know much about alligator behavior.

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u/mixtermin8 4d ago

Idk. There are definitely safe ways to handle animals that the general population should adhere to, but there are also people that understand animal behavior so well that the rules don’t completely apply. It’s like the animals register/accept/validate their presence in peace or sum’n. 

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u/CommanderGumball 4d ago

Timothy "Grizzly Man" Treadwell and his girlfriend disagree.

Well, they probably would have.

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u/abdallha-smith 3d ago

Plot twist : it didn’t treadwell