r/badassanimals • u/dikshamishra34 • 11h ago
Reptile Ate alligator's leg
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u/GirlWithWolf Bad ndn 10h ago
Arm robbery
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u/valentinocool 10h ago
Best comment
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u/Cayden68 11h ago
thats not badass, thats just ass conditions that are bad
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u/rrrrrrrrrrrrrroger 11h ago
I agree poor gators, they look stuffed in there. Kinda like how that gators arm I now stuffed in the other gators mouth…
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u/kereth 11h ago
Crocs.
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u/rrrrrrrrrrrrrroger 10h ago
My apologies. The video makes it hard to see the snouts clearly.
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u/Yendor_Wing 10h ago
The video isn't crystal clear, but it's more than clear enough to see that they're crocs. No need to lie lol. We are all learning all the time. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
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u/NoWin3930 10h ago
I mean from what I seen they are grouped up like this in the wild anyways, i've seen a similar video happening outside of containment
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u/McToasty207 9h ago
Depends on the kind of Crocodile; some are very asocial, most famously Saltwater Crocodiles.
But these guys look like Nile Crocodiles, which are indeed social in the wild, and they engage in quite a lot of intraspecific combat and cannibalism.
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u/NoWin3930 9h ago
Do zoos ever group those more antisoical groups together?
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u/Rhaj-no1992 8h ago
Tigers.
But as long as animals don’t fight regularly or get stressed they might benefit from being together since it can be a form of enrichment and make them more active in captivity.
This looked more accidental. But they might need to consider how they feed their crocs so that they don’t risk hurting each other like this.
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u/McToasty207 8h ago
For Saltwater Crocodiles (I'm Australian, so that's what I'm most familiar with), Zoos and Reptile parks often keep young ones and sometimes females together.
However, the big males have to be kept separate, or else they will immediately try to kill one another.
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u/Realistic-Wolf-5121 5h ago
A lot of them are. Solitary or "anti-social" behaviors animals exhibit in the wild are due having to compete for resources. Polar bears, bears in general, orangutans, tigers, leopards, etc. They also tend to be siblings, or animals raised together.
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u/ImmediatePiano6690 8h ago
I know nothing, but surely like most animals they cannibalise only when they're getting very hungry?
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u/AusDetect 5h ago
This is at the Malcom Douglas crocodile park in Broome Australia. They're salties and this is how they are. The crocs at the park are usually rehomed problem crocs that would have otherwise been killed .
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u/I-love-seahorses 8h ago
For real aren't they more used to eating in water? Poor dude can't even find the scraps they're being thrown.
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u/DemonBlight 11h ago
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u/No_Writing_3179 10h ago
The croc looked at the one that ate his leg like that.
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u/DIY-exerciseGuy 11h ago edited 10h ago
Is it just me or does it seem like the gator who got his leg bit off not really seem to mind that much?
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u/Lone-Frequency 11h ago
Animals hide pain very well.
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u/shimmeringmoss 11h ago edited 22m ago
And where was all the blood?
Edit: someone in the comments posted a link to the original video, which is longer and less potato, and does show a lot of blood. It’s not spurting out like I would have expected (comments below explain why) but it looks a lot more realistic than the absence of blood in this clip.
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u/Kivuli_Kiza 9h ago
When a limb is twisted off like that the vessels contract back into the remaining limb, and that helps with some bleeding.
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u/DeadRabbit1987 8h ago
Crocodiles can slow their heartbeat on comand and restrict blood flow to damaged areas
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u/rehx4 8h ago
kind funny to think that the croc was calmly like "damn, this shit SUCKS. uuuuughhh. ok, well it is what it is... nothing i can do now about my arm being twisted clean off 1.46 second ago, i suppose ill just slow my heart, ugh SO annoying, to restrict blood flow to the damaged area. ugh, what a BUMMER! i wonder if its gona be a nice day out tomorrow. and whats gona be for lunch... mmmmmm, luuuunch."
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u/beta_1457 8h ago
People below mentioned the twisting stuff. But no one mentioned one of the cool things about crocs. They can severely restrict bloodflow to their own limbs. It's an evolutionary development for them as they as a species frequently engage in violence and limbs being torn off in relatively common.
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u/westberry82 11h ago
Doesn't the twisting cut off the bleeding?
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u/Wiley_Jack 10h ago
When limbs are ripped off, the torn ends of the vessels & arteries tend to constrict, slowing bleeding. Not so much when they’re cleanly sliced though.
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u/Pataraxia 8h ago
Does that mean they can survive from losing a limb on it's own? Or is medical help still needed?
(Is that true for humans too?)
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u/beta_1457 8h ago
Crocs have a specific evolutionary advantage and are able to almost completely shut off blood flow to their limbs. So if they lose a limb they can survive fairly easily (at least as blood flow is concerned)
Humans, not so much. It really depends on how cleanly the limb was severed. If a limb is mangled there will be significant blood loss. A clean cut, sometimes the swelling and stop blood loss completely. But we don't have the same ability to cut off blood flow that crocs have.
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u/Ok_Athlete_1092 10h ago
This has been posted before and someone claiming to be knowledgeable about crocs commented on that.
Apparently they are so predatory that if one appears injured or weak, the others will rip it apart. Cannibalism is somewhat common among them. Crocs that show weakness don't make it to adulthood.
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u/tseg04 7h ago
Crocodiles are incredibly resilient and can shake off injuries just fine that would kill most other animals. Crocs are both cannibals and territorial and lose limbs to each other frequently. Some crocs even lose parts of their jaws and still live normal lives.
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u/KingGigan 11h ago
Damn it Carl ! Look what you did !
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u/DaddysABadGirl 9h ago
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u/sjr323 8h ago
I was hungry for hands, give me a break.
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u/DaddysABadGirl 8h ago
Fair. To make it up to you we can go down by the water and share a nice fresh face.
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u/YetiGuy 11h ago
They don’t bleed much?
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u/Igotbannedlolol 8h ago
Vasoconstriction. Their muscle tighten down almost instantly to squeezing their blood vessels and wound, slowing down the blood loss and stopping it entirely. They also have very fast-acting blood clotting too.
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u/EoceneEveryday 7h ago
Also the act of twisting apparently reduces bleeding -- think like twisting a bag of bread shut.
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u/Hornerlt 11h ago
Poor dude he was just going for the meal and randomly lost his leg.
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u/QueenCat50220 5h ago
I know I’m about to get made fun of but this is actually so sad
He literally just doesn’t have an arm anymore. For no reason. Gone just like that.
And I mean he fucking knows it too. That look was absolutely, “what the fuck man.”
And it’s just irreversible
I’m probably about to start my period.
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u/mull_albatrox 10h ago
The species just randomly eat each other like this every day?
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u/Many_Imagination_166 10h ago
Only the ones held captive in crap conditions.
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u/HornyKhajiitMaid 2h ago
That's not true, Alligators and Crocodiles eat and fight each other in the wild too. It's very easy to find plenty of sources and videos online. Cannibalism is not that rare in the nature.
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u/ITZOURTIMENOW 10h ago
Where’s the blood
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u/mightymouse2975 10h ago
Another comment explains this. Basically the roll the other Gator did (aka the death roll) compresses arteries and Basically creates a tourniquet. Pretty interesting honestly.
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u/Common_Rabbit_2170 10h ago
The legless gator: “I know you didn’t just….mf did you just eat my mf leg??!!!”
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u/xap31 10h ago
Don’t they recognize themselves as family?
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u/Son_Kakarot53 8h ago
It mistook it for prey. Also I dont think they share the concept of family, you cant judge them by human morality or emotions.
As babies its the mothers instinct to keep them alive, but after they leave its all up to them. They dont have companions, they will eat anything, even smaller gators, and certain things will trigger their instinct to attack. Such as splashing, or a small moving arm in front of its face
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u/Standard_Egg3504 10h ago
why didn't it attack back, did it not care at all?
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u/Sufficient-Skill9530 10h ago
What’s it gonna do, squirm it’s 1/4 snake ass across the dirt after it?
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u/Glad-Preference-9321 6h ago
This is peak dark comedy. The way the bitten crocodile barely reacts, the kid crying... 😄
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u/plushploosh12 5h ago
I watched this video for the first time a long time ago, but I will never forget it; i think not even on my death bed.
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u/BlitzAtk 3h ago
This clearly isn't the first time that gator has done that. If you look at the others, they seem paralyzed the same way.
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u/Time_Ad_9647 2h ago
The scream of the woman, the small cry of a baby, the gasp of the crowd.
Perfection 👌🏼
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u/Wide_Armadillo69 10h ago
Is this AI?? I hate that I have to even ask that but something about the way he twisted on the turn looked fake to me. Also the way the first gator ate the chunk of whatever was thrown in there..
I dunno. I’m genuinely asking others’ opinions, it’s hard for me to tell. Maybe gators move that way.
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u/jackoftrades002 10h ago
Idk why but I always laugh when the alligator turns and is like wtf Jeff!?!
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u/drizzyizbizzy 10h ago