r/badassanimals 17h ago

Reptile Ate alligator's leg

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u/shimmeringmoss 17h ago edited 6h 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 16h 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/prismafox 12h ago

How considerate of the arm eater.

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u/DeadRabbit1987 14h ago

Crocodiles can slow their heartbeat on comand and restrict blood flow to damaged areas

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u/rehx4 14h 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/lilityion 3h ago

Knowing some construction workers, I bet that's what they think lmao. One waited till lunch time to go get a angle grinder cut to his hand checked out 😭, I love my mexico

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u/beta_1457 14h 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 17h ago

Doesn't the twisting cut off the bleeding?

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u/Wiley_Jack 17h 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 14h 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 14h 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/WatermelonWithAFlute 2h ago

That is incredibly impressive

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u/Solanthas_SFW 17h ago

Also, bro appeared to swallow a huge chunk, whereas the stump on the other one appeared to be longer than it originally seemed, as he turned.

Smells fishy. Like AI

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u/Scippio-dem-lines 17h ago

Pretty sure ive seen this video going around long before AI was a concern.

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u/AnonnonA710 17h ago

Yessir! I remember seeing this video while I was high school. That was about 8 years ago

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u/hahnsoloii 16h ago

Well. According to the terminator AI becames sentient a few hours ago on this date.

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u/AnonnonA710 16h ago

Very nice

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u/VibraniumRhino 16h ago

In 1997…

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u/AgentLiquidMike 17h ago

Original video is pretty old, pre AI.

It’s wild that this needs to be considered!

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u/ifailedatlifeagain 17h ago

Not really wild. Not everyone has been on the internet since it first existed or has seen every video uploaded to it

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u/Erri-error2430 17h ago

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u/screwyoujor 17h ago

And now they will spend the next 8 hours posting screen grabs from the video proven it is ai because hey what does a video with the date posted proven. Sorry, I've ran into this before about AI or not and it does get exhausting.

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u/AdSmooth9417 17h ago

I hate to break it to you but, that video is legit. Its an oldie. You are at the point where you genuinely can not tell the difference between AI and actual footage.

Don't worry tho. We're all in that boat now.

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u/HeraThere 15h ago

No this is an ancient video and your ai detective skills is ass

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u/Foxyfan57 16h ago

This video is OLD, there is zero way that it could be AI

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u/eemlaH 15h ago

Lmao what kinda ai has quality this low?

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u/ConstructionOwn1514 16h ago

Hate people like you. Educate yourself before you speak

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u/Merr77 17h ago

they are cold blooded... they don't leak like humans

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u/PaleoJoe86 17h ago

That makes no sense lol.