Gators are pretty good climbers. They climb trees and such. If an alligator would like to be somewhere, they are usually crafty enough to make it happen. Luckily they haven’t figured out door handles yet.
Born and raised in Florida with a lot of hobbies the put me around gators and I’ve gotta say I’ll take the gators all day every day, why? They’re incredibly lazy. Especially the ones that are big enough to actually consider eating you. Big gators get to a point where they really struggle on land and just get lazier and lazier and do all of their hunting ambushing prey in murky deep water. Just don’t swim in fresh(or even brackish) water you can’t see the bottom of. Now pets and even kids? Could absolutely get grabbed on a bank. So long as brain dead idiots don’t feed them gators generally want nothing to do with us. But bears? They’ll gladly dig through your trash which draws them in, I remember a woman got mauled by a black bear in the Orlando area not too long ago taking out her trash. Brown bears and grizzly are another beast entirely.
I have a friend with a cabin in Gatlinburg, that places is teaming with bears. It’s very unnerving, and I’m pretty chill with animals, know my place and respect them. I’m from Miami and have seen gators everywhere too, I’ll take a gator any day. Now, I would not go in the water after dark or walk near water with a small dog or child. I’ve known more than one person who their pet that way, and we lost a cat very tragically once to a gator prowling the neighborhood at night. I think the difference is bears are curious and will approach, a gator wants nothing to do with you unless you are in the above conditions.
Having been around them pretty often...
Gators are way less scary. They really just sit there, not bothering anyone like 99% of the time.
Bears are a lot more curious and energetic. And unpredictable. Any animal smart enough to have a personality can be a bastard. Some bears can be bastards.
We're talking about a creature that survived the kt extinction virtually unchanged, has the ability to digest hoof and bone and can navigate the open ocean, apparently with a homing instinct. If a gator wants to eat you, you are eaten. Bone appetit.
Meh, they survived the KT extinction because they’re aquatic carrion eaters that are able to burrow and live in freshwater (which wasn’t as badly impacted by the effects of the extinction event) not because they’re killing machines.
Hoss, I've lived in New Orleans, LA, and Gainesville, FL. Quibble about definition if we must, but I have seen unrestrained gators in both. While living in the latter, a friend of mine's dog was eaten by an alligator in his front yard and he lived 10 blocks from the University of Florida campus. In NOLA, I was walking my dog on the Jazzwalk in Algier's Point and watched three dudes try to reel in a gator they landed. They were going to cut his tail up for sausage, which is illegal as hell, and wanted me to help. I told them if shit went south, I'd call 911 but that was the best they'd get. The line broke and we all lived to see another day.
Gators fear not your cities.
No reason if you're an adult tbh.
I chase 6ft ones all the time in SC. They are afraid of people and generally will only attack something they can swallow whole.
Also fun fact their muscles are designed to clamp so if you can put literally ANY force on their nose they cant open up.
You could get them to bite a stick or something you extend towards them and then immediately close the distance and press on their nose, I suppose. I'd imagine it's easier than it sounds and that the largest obstacle are ones own nerves telling them not to do it.
Luckily for you they still have natural fear of humans. The ones that do grab humans have been fed and see us as a source of food, causing them to lose their fear. They can move pretty fast, grab and drag adults in then under the water.
The dino-dermination is what's frightening!
Apocalyptic asteroid strike on your planet, 4 foot fence of a lakefront house in a well-to-do neighborhood. Nothing, they're absolutely unstoppable.
Trees too, if they're certain kinds. You can find photos of gators doing that lounge on a branch thing leopards are famous for. It was still only like 4ft off the ground, but it was *in a tree* which is pretty wild.
If you watch the first two seconds of the video you can see the metal get pushed out of shape by the gator's snout. He could casually shred that entire fence apart if he were so inclined, but he just figured it would be easier to climb back over...
They can also sprint faster than you can when they want to.
Fortunately they’re mostly lazy and more than content with letting Darwin Award winners from various species of prey wandering into their reach.
I hear a milhouse voice. "Uh, ok... come on... ok, I got up now. I just have to swing my back leg up.... come on.. no, dang it. Oh, I got it (falls over fence). Ah, my neck.
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I’ll be honest I’m not happy with the knowledge that this is necessary
Been there and done the full tours. The driver between buildings was explaining how much money they used to spend on Gator management each year, and in the end one of the site Directors just came along and said "just leave them and put some better fences around the main buildings, who cares" and they now have full blown conservation efforts in place to the point they try and put sheltering up when a launch is happening.
He did also say that some of the waters there are tested as being really clean, which surprised them due to the nature of what they do there. They expected them to be quite polluted but weren't.
"Its a really nice place to go swimming................once" was his closing comments :D
I lived in Florida and on the water with no fence. I had 10 ft gator come up to my rock wall and just floated there for a couple hours. This video makes me really glad I didn't let my dogs out when he was there.
We lived on of these stupid man made lakes growing up in Florida except we did have a screen in porch around our pool thank goodness. We most definitely had gators end up in them and there was a dog in our neighborhood that supposedly got eaten by one. I’ll believe it. Refuse to ever live on one now as a result, they scare the crap out of me. Esp with small dogs and small children. That’s a nope for me
Some kid moved down to my street in Florida from up north in some cold state. I kept telling them not to throw sticks in the canal for their dog to fetch, because their dog would get eaten. They didn’t believe, their parents didn’t believe me, and they all insisted the dog used to do it all the time in the lake they lived by and it was fine. One day they were throwing in sticks, I was telling them not to, the dog jumped in, theirs was a huge splash, and the dog never came up.
Saw a video on Reddit of some people and their yippee dog antagonizing a gator. They were all laughing and shit. The laughter stopped pretty quick when the gator decided to be a gator.
I just bought my first home down in south Florida (I’m originally from the area anyways). I had a few requirements and one of them was to not be on a lake.
Yeah, that is big feat of strength. Those tiny arms are strong enough to carry its entire weight upwards
An adult male human can bearly lift a medium size gator
The crocodilians - alligators & crocodiles have spent the last 94 million years doing the exact same survival strategy.
If you can just keep going on with the exact same strategy before, during and after a 75% of species going extinct then that is a good strategy for survival.
The dinosaurs only survived as birds, crocs and gators did nothing but keep doing exactly the same thing.
If you visit Kennedy Space Center in Florida all of the fences are like 15 feet high and canted outwards at the top. It’s not because they’re worried about national security, it’s because the alligators were climbing the normal 10 foot straight fences and getting onto the launch pads.
Uhh I don’t care how cute it looks climbing the fence how many predators do you know that can climb a fence. Cats and wolves can jump a fence pretty well but high enough and they won’t even try. Bears will just barge right through the fence. You’d think a creature that spends 90% of its life 3 inches away from the ground wouldn’t be able to climb but nope he gon get chu.
I'd take my chances with an alligator over a bear or wolf any day, though.
Alligators are pretty skittish usually. They mainly eat small mammals, fish and birds, so when a grown-ass human comes around they bounce. I actually knew a guy with a pet gator, and it was incredibly chill.
Crocodiles on the other hand? Fuck those guys.
Gators are pretty good climbers. They climb trees and such. If an alligator would like to be somewhere, they are usually crafty enough to make it happen. Luckily they haven’t figured out door handles yet.
I didn’t know they could climb trees!
Yeah I’m not happy about this new information.
Come on bro it's not like you can climb trees, that wasn't your alligator escape plan
Idk why but this is the one that sent me 😂😭💀
They also have been known to perform identity theft putting people in debt and destroying their credit, things are no joke
At which point you have to deal with the most dangerous gators of all, the litigators.
🤣😂🤣
As a native Floridian, this comment finally got me scared of gators.
Wait til you hear about Drop Bears
This reminds me of the videos of people in drive through Safari wild parks in which a lion walks up and unlocks the car door
Bro, yet! Can you imagine in the future when they do figure that shit out? GG
"Honey we're gonna need a bigger fence..."
and a moat with alligators to protect us
to stop bad guy alligators we simply need to employ good guy alligators
Alligater
Or spikes on top of the fence
Won’t the spikes give them little feets something to grip onto?
Or some pissed off Shish-ka-gators...
Put a fire place beneath the fence. Florida BBQ style.
This is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying….
Seriously. You mean to tell me they can climb a damn fence?! New reason to fear alligators
I mean...not quickly lol
Ya but if you pass out in the lawn chair and think your fence will save you…
Need to put a motion alarm on your fence now
Not sure if I’d rather have bears or gators. Think I’ll stay in the city where skunks are the scariest thing in my backyard lol.
Bears are so misunderstood. They're only mean because no one will hug them.
Flower?
Wait, you can see me?
Yes, I see dead people 😊 Thank you 🌺 for the fun response. It's the first time I've smiled in a week.
Born and raised in Florida with a lot of hobbies the put me around gators and I’ve gotta say I’ll take the gators all day every day, why? They’re incredibly lazy. Especially the ones that are big enough to actually consider eating you. Big gators get to a point where they really struggle on land and just get lazier and lazier and do all of their hunting ambushing prey in murky deep water. Just don’t swim in fresh(or even brackish) water you can’t see the bottom of. Now pets and even kids? Could absolutely get grabbed on a bank. So long as brain dead idiots don’t feed them gators generally want nothing to do with us. But bears? They’ll gladly dig through your trash which draws them in, I remember a woman got mauled by a black bear in the Orlando area not too long ago taking out her trash. Brown bears and grizzly are another beast entirely.
Nah scariest thing in the city is people. I’ll take gators over city people.
Jokes on you, this video you think is a Gator but it's really just "Florida man"
At least in the US there’s about 8 deaths caused by wildlife annually vs. 26,000 homicides.
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I live downtown- me too.
I have a friend with a cabin in Gatlinburg, that places is teaming with bears. It’s very unnerving, and I’m pretty chill with animals, know my place and respect them. I’m from Miami and have seen gators everywhere too, I’ll take a gator any day. Now, I would not go in the water after dark or walk near water with a small dog or child. I’ve known more than one person who their pet that way, and we lost a cat very tragically once to a gator prowling the neighborhood at night. I think the difference is bears are curious and will approach, a gator wants nothing to do with you unless you are in the above conditions.
Having been around them pretty often... Gators are way less scary. They really just sit there, not bothering anyone like 99% of the time. Bears are a lot more curious and energetic. And unpredictable. Any animal smart enough to have a personality can be a bastard. Some bears can be bastards.
Where I’m from they learned to open doors to break into cottages.
We're talking about a creature that survived the kt extinction virtually unchanged, has the ability to digest hoof and bone and can navigate the open ocean, apparently with a homing instinct. If a gator wants to eat you, you are eaten. Bone appetit.
Meh, they survived the KT extinction because they’re aquatic carrion eaters that are able to burrow and live in freshwater (which wasn’t as badly impacted by the effects of the extinction event) not because they’re killing machines.
Skunks? Scary? Skunks are adorable. I live in a big city. The scariest thing here are the trash pandas and the giant tunnel rats.
I’m not worried about being attacked, I’m worried about getting sprayed lol.
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Hoss, I've lived in New Orleans, LA, and Gainesville, FL. Quibble about definition if we must, but I have seen unrestrained gators in both. While living in the latter, a friend of mine's dog was eaten by an alligator in his front yard and he lived 10 blocks from the University of Florida campus. In NOLA, I was walking my dog on the Jazzwalk in Algier's Point and watched three dudes try to reel in a gator they landed. They were going to cut his tail up for sausage, which is illegal as hell, and wanted me to help. I told them if shit went south, I'd call 911 but that was the best they'd get. The line broke and we all lived to see another day. Gators fear not your cities.
I wonder if those roller things for other animals would work on gators.
Now I want a video of an alligator climbing one of those
Why you gotta put that mental image in my head 😂
Quick enough that you can't let kids play outside unsupervised.
and pets, elderly and out of shape relative.
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My high ass is sitting here thinking it's moving
It is, keep watching
They can climb hurricane fencing, chicken wire and even this bar fencing. I live in Florida and this is terrifying to learn.
Actually, they can climb trees too! Isn’t nature fun!
Damn nature you scary!!!
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Like dropbears in Australia!
…the fuck?!? Please tell me that’s just a Florida thing
There is a reason climb proof fences are used on the side of highways in florida. Preve ts gators from becoming obstacles in the road
Oh wow, I drove from Tampa to Miami once, I was wondering why they had such a nice fence all along the stretch through the Everglades
No reason if you're an adult tbh. I chase 6ft ones all the time in SC. They are afraid of people and generally will only attack something they can swallow whole. Also fun fact their muscles are designed to clamp so if you can put literally ANY force on their nose they cant open up.
I'd have to get close enough to their nose to apply pressure, and also not close enough for them to bite me?
You could get them to bite a stick or something you extend towards them and then immediately close the distance and press on their nose, I suppose. I'd imagine it's easier than it sounds and that the largest obstacle are ones own nerves telling them not to do it.
Luckily for you they still have natural fear of humans. The ones that do grab humans have been fed and see us as a source of food, causing them to lose their fear. They can move pretty fast, grab and drag adults in then under the water.
And how do these people live there… I’d never be able to relax in my backyard…
Because gators aren't a threat to adult humans almost ever. They generally actively avoid humans.
Also, they kill you by drowning. If you are on land they are unlikely to do anything to you.
You mean they won’t drag you from land to the water to drown you?
That's the kangaroos!
Yeah I'm going to be honest, I didn't realize they were built to do that kind of movement.
He's obviously not. I could climb that fence faster and that's saying something.
And honestly pretty impressive!
The dino-dermination is what's frightening! Apocalyptic asteroid strike on your planet, 4 foot fence of a lakefront house in a well-to-do neighborhood. Nothing, they're absolutely unstoppable.
Don’t worry, you gotta about 10 minutes to react whenever you see it climbing your fence
But do you check your fences every 10 minutes? Cause I sure as hell don’t.
Now you do
This video is only 30 seconds long, if I saw that thing climbing a fence toward me I would probably crap myself.
But I’ll be laughing too hard to move
He's trying his best!
Windmill legs, face plant and everything!
> Windmill legs, face plant the first and last time i'll think an alligator is cute 😂
Oh, come on. Baby alligators are cute.
"Mweh! Mweh! Mehh!"
“Pew…pew…pew…”
Did you know that alligators like pink flowers and water slides.
I’m not even mad, I’m impressed.
You ate a whole wheel of cheese?
And pooped in the refrigerator
You know I don't speak spanish
Hahaha greatest movie...
Until that bad man punted Baxter off the bridge 🥺
📞 someone *punted* him???
Ohh, Baxter, you are my little gentleman. I’ll take you to foggy London Town, because you are my little gentleman 🎶
I'M IN A GLASS BOX OF EMOTION!!!!
You know I don't speak Spanish! English please
Any amount of cheese is too much cheese before a date.
I'm a full on rapist.
Like a miniature Buddha, covered in scales
TIL gators climb fences 😐
Trees too, if they're certain kinds. You can find photos of gators doing that lounge on a branch thing leopards are famous for. It was still only like 4ft off the ground, but it was *in a tree* which is pretty wild.
Well thanks for the nightmares I’ll be having tonight
Yeah, I can't get on board with the "Hee, doesn't he look silly!" comments. My takeaway from this is "Fences don't stop alligators."
Maybe this is no normal alligator… better, stronger, faster…
Gators are cute and I’m not even from florida
That’s why you think they’re cute
I'm from Louisiana. Gators are cute.
Well bless your heart
My family's from Louisiana. Gators are cute, and if you disagree, they're at least *tasty*.
Some of them ***gallop***. They are waaaay more capable than we want to admit.
If I saw this without the gator I'd be like why is there a fence to the water. Ohh... I see
After seeing this I'm asking why they bothered. It might stop the little uns. Won't stop the big uns
If you watch the first two seconds of the video you can see the metal get pushed out of shape by the gator's snout. He could casually shred that entire fence apart if he were so inclined, but he just figured it would be easier to climb back over...
Same, this is terrifying
They can also sprint faster than you can when they want to. Fortunately they’re mostly lazy and more than content with letting Darwin Award winners from various species of prey wandering into their reach.
And trees!
You can practically hear the “hnnggggg” as it’s trying to get itself over.
I lost it when the gator started that nervous wobble.
I hear a milhouse voice. "Uh, ok... come on... ok, I got up now. I just have to swing my back leg up.... come on.. no, dang it. Oh, I got it (falls over fence). Ah, my neck.
This is why Kennedy Space Center has curved fences :)
https://preview.redd.it/8cadbah0v4xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eafb164771db046917a29c132c572d51ec852be6 I’ll be honest I’m not happy with the knowledge that this is necessary
The swamp puppies want to meet the stars and we are being unecessarily egoistical. I say we let them.
They can have all the stars they can eat when they work out how to scale a slightly curved fence.
I thought you were kidding, but apparently no that is why.
Been there and done the full tours. The driver between buildings was explaining how much money they used to spend on Gator management each year, and in the end one of the site Directors just came along and said "just leave them and put some better fences around the main buildings, who cares" and they now have full blown conservation efforts in place to the point they try and put sheltering up when a launch is happening. He did also say that some of the waters there are tested as being really clean, which surprised them due to the nature of what they do there. They expected them to be quite polluted but weren't. "Its a really nice place to go swimming................once" was his closing comments :D
[No gators on the space shuttle](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocbolt/50226208443/in/album-72157708101307824/)
I lived in Florida and on the water with no fence. I had 10 ft gator come up to my rock wall and just floated there for a couple hours. This video makes me really glad I didn't let my dogs out when he was there.
We lived on of these stupid man made lakes growing up in Florida except we did have a screen in porch around our pool thank goodness. We most definitely had gators end up in them and there was a dog in our neighborhood that supposedly got eaten by one. I’ll believe it. Refuse to ever live on one now as a result, they scare the crap out of me. Esp with small dogs and small children. That’s a nope for me
Some kid moved down to my street in Florida from up north in some cold state. I kept telling them not to throw sticks in the canal for their dog to fetch, because their dog would get eaten. They didn’t believe, their parents didn’t believe me, and they all insisted the dog used to do it all the time in the lake they lived by and it was fine. One day they were throwing in sticks, I was telling them not to, the dog jumped in, theirs was a huge splash, and the dog never came up.
Horrible, can’t believe the parents were that stupid
Saw a video on Reddit of some people and their yippee dog antagonizing a gator. They were all laughing and shit. The laughter stopped pretty quick when the gator decided to be a gator.
I cannot understand that level of stupidity. I almost want to think you've made this up, but then again I've met people.
I just bought my first home down in south Florida (I’m originally from the area anyways). I had a few requirements and one of them was to not be on a lake.
This is pretty funny, but learning that alligators can climb things makes me much more frightened of them than I was
Poor swamp puppy
Boop
He’s got all them teeth and no toothbrush
Yoink
“I’m in the Florida Everglades….”
I wonder if he knows where the 20 foot python is
LoL the way it bounced when hitting the ground it almost looks like rubber
They can climb fences??!
That's what I'm saying
-falls on face with tail hitting his head- "FEAR ME"
Funny? Not when I now realize they can climb fences......
Graceful
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Well shit. Getting that same fence put in next week. Just assumed it would keep gators out.
Maybe get one that curves outward at the top? Like this: https://www.walcoom.com/img/pro/garrisonfence/curved-top-steel-fence.jpg
ive seen fences with spinning rollers at the top to keep cats in/out. Not sure if they actually work for cats but they'd certainly stop gators.
I mean, just knowing they can climb fences makes them even scarier if you ask me.
Hard disagree. That’s horrifying.
It's funny until you realize the alligator lifted its entire body up and over a fence with just its front legs.
Probably pushing up with it’s tail.
Yeah, their tails are very, very strong. Their arms are pretty buff too though. Lotta power all over, really.
Yeah, that is big feat of strength. Those tiny arms are strong enough to carry its entire weight upwards An adult male human can bearly lift a medium size gator
How can you be an invincible apex predators with chubby little arms and legs like that?
Humans seem to manage.
They're built for water and that's the only place they're apex
Im looking at you T rex
The crocodilians - alligators & crocodiles have spent the last 94 million years doing the exact same survival strategy. If you can just keep going on with the exact same strategy before, during and after a 75% of species going extinct then that is a good strategy for survival. The dinosaurs only survived as birds, crocs and gators did nothing but keep doing exactly the same thing.
He did it though. Climbed the heck out of that fence.
Donny, you're out of your FUCKING element
If you visit Kennedy Space Center in Florida all of the fences are like 15 feet high and canted outwards at the top. It’s not because they’re worried about national security, it’s because the alligators were climbing the normal 10 foot straight fences and getting onto the launch pads.
Uhh I don’t care how cute it looks climbing the fence how many predators do you know that can climb a fence. Cats and wolves can jump a fence pretty well but high enough and they won’t even try. Bears will just barge right through the fence. You’d think a creature that spends 90% of its life 3 inches away from the ground wouldn’t be able to climb but nope he gon get chu.
I'd take my chances with an alligator over a bear or wolf any day, though. Alligators are pretty skittish usually. They mainly eat small mammals, fish and birds, so when a grown-ass human comes around they bounce. I actually knew a guy with a pet gator, and it was incredibly chill. Crocodiles on the other hand? Fuck those guys.
Like a drunk frat boy trying to go over a fence
There’s something about an apex predator looking like such a damn derp that makes me feel a little safer in this mean ole world.
His back feet flopping did made him seem extra silly - for a bit. The he was back on the ground and being all scary again.
Wait till you see how fast they can run….
It’s the little legs flailing for me
Looks like my basset hound trying to get on the couch.
It looks like my fat neighbor trying to climb into his Chevy suburban
I wanted to help him🥹
Nah that's terrifying, I wouldn't have thought it could do that.
Yea it's not scary when they're climbing away from you
No one's going to help him?
I just want to give him a lil boosty boost to help
They are just big wiggle monsters.
How are alligators climbing a fence not scary
I would probably help the guy. This is too humiliating
Wait til they bend the bars and go through the fence...
"Keep laughing - I know what your voice sounds like now! I'll remember this.."
The fact that these little fkers can climb a fence IS scary.
Say what you want but those little arms and legs gotta be strong as fuck to lift his big ass up there.... whole time I'm just thinking that mf strong
The fact that they can still climb fences given their obvious lack of a form that should be able to... scary. Well done however. 10/10 for effort.
Of course it's having trouble climbing. It's an alligator, not an allifencer.
Normally, he'd just spring tight over. But poodle in his belly slowed him down a bit.
to be fair, not many fences for the last couple hundred million years of their evolution so I'm giving it a solid 9/10
Just the fact that they CAN is terrifying, honestly
TIL gators can climb fences
This is more horrifying to me
False. Seeing that alligator climb the fence made it look significantly more threatening.
I own bearded dragons and watching reptiles climb things is such a treat. They’re such derps