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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

A gator yelling at a careless parent for putting their child in a precarious position is a weird thing to put on a sign...

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The gator is running for superintendent and wanted the PR boost

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

But please only feed organic children to the crocodiles.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 56 minutes ago

Best I can do is free range that's been fed nothing but penicillin and other children.

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

That gator plays the maraccas.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 hours ago

Gotta lure the families towards it somehow 🤷🏻

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

And likes baby poop.

[–] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Recommended even!

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We live near a park with alligators in an exhibit, they are well fed and lounge on the banks of a little pond, with some turtles, sunning themselves - so I always let my kids lean over the railing, not touch them or anything but I didn't worry about it since they were fed & lazy.

Until one day, we saw one of them lunge at a turtle and grab it, moving so fast! Crunch crunch gulp. Which disabused me of two wrong ideas. One, that these alligators did not care to have a snack, and two, that nothing but eagles could eat turtles. Someone had told me that no animal could bite through a turtle shell, but that eagles would drop them from a great height to crack them open, and since I'd never seen another animal eat a turtle, I bought it.

So after that, no more leaning over.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Well the turtles were part of the exhibit or were there to be food for gators?

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Part of the exhibit. They fed the gators chicken, the guy would stand on a platform and dangle the chicken on a pole, and get the gators to jump for it from the water. Like cats, it was kind of amazing. I always thought they were full of chicken. But maybe only one or two of them knew to jump for the chicken, who knows?

There's an alligator in the pond at my office park, and one day riding in on my bike I saw him grabbing breakfast, very exciting. But everyone knows not to feed them, and to to be careful of them out in the wild! I did not know to be careful of the ones that were behind a very low fence in an exhibit!

Here is the one I see on my way to work sometimes.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

There isn't a sign "do not feed" either so...

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

When feeding consider size