KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
on 20 Feb 20:25
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I’m not sure what’s better: The alligator wearing the hat, the conservation instructor seemingly grabbing its tail to stop it, or the alligator just not giving a shit and carrying on with its day.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io
on 20 Feb 20:41
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God day sir, I said good day!
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 14:36
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What’s the charge? Eating a hat? A succulent conservationist hat‽
Flummoxed@lemmy.today
on 20 Feb 20:45
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Happens to people all the time on the bayou here, but we probably don’t have conservation instructors, so I suppose the sentence is still unique.
emuspawn@orbiting.observer
on 21 Feb 04:35
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Alligators steal hats all the time?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
on 21 Feb 08:04
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that’s how you tell them apart from crocodiles
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 14:39
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They’re in North America, not Egypt. One exists here, the other doesn’t.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
on 21 Feb 14:45
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ok nerd
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 14:48
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At least my way, I get to keep my hat!
Also, I’m a geek, thanks. Geek = highly trained nerd.
All the time around here… what, do you think I would just come on the internet and lie?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de
on 20 Feb 21:26
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In college I did my internship working at a reptile house that did educational events at schools, libraries, fairs, etc. We had several alligators but only one that was allowed to wander the grounds (supervised). The property has a creek with high banks running through it that is all snow melt in the summer, and it was my job to go drag Spike out of the water and into the sun when he’d go sit in the icy water too long and couldn’t get himself back over the bank.
Seeing that person with a gator by the tail trying to keep it out of the water brings that all flooding back. Spike wasn’t that big though.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 14:37
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Did Spike know his name, also did he respond to it?
I’m my few months there I don’t think he responded to his name, but he knew the sound of us yelling at him from across the field - that would get his attention.
Alright. Just a guess here, but the instructor put the hat on the gator. My thought is that they were attempting to use their hat as an impromptu blinder so they could wrangle it. Instead, however, the gator could still see, didn’t like what was going on, and bailed.
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I’m not sure what’s better: The alligator wearing the hat, the conservation instructor seemingly grabbing its tail to stop it, or the alligator just not giving a shit and carrying on with its day.
God day sir, I said good day!
What’s the charge? Eating a hat? A succulent conservationist hat‽
Happens to people all the time on the bayou here, but we probably don’t have conservation instructors, so I suppose the sentence is still unique.
Alligators steal hats all the time?
that’s how you tell them apart from crocodiles
They’re in North America, not Egypt. One exists here, the other doesn’t.
ok nerd
At least my way, I get to keep my hat!
Also, I’m a geek, thanks. Geek = highly trained nerd.
All the time around here… what, do you think I would just come on the internet and lie?
In college I did my internship working at a reptile house that did educational events at schools, libraries, fairs, etc. We had several alligators but only one that was allowed to wander the grounds (supervised). The property has a creek with high banks running through it that is all snow melt in the summer, and it was my job to go drag Spike out of the water and into the sun when he’d go sit in the icy water too long and couldn’t get himself back over the bank.
Seeing that person with a gator by the tail trying to keep it out of the water brings that all flooding back. Spike wasn’t that big though.
Did Spike know his name, also did he respond to it?
I’m my few months there I don’t think he responded to his name, but he knew the sound of us yelling at him from across the field - that would get his attention.
I sense a Paddington style movie coming…
Already exist Lyle Lyle Crocodile
Wow, memory unlocked! I haven’t thought about those books since I was a kid!
<img alt="" src="https://images.booksense.com/images/786/253/9780395253786.jpg">
When something like a hat may actually cost you an arm and a leg.
Alligator: I’ve warned you Jeff, next time you put your stupid Indiana Jones hat on me I’m gonna put it in the river!
If you put the hat on his head, it was a gift and he’s not stealing anything. No take-backsies!
Like something out of fieldwork fail. <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/801f5a42-f5d8-448f-a39b-43d0cf1a98d6.jpeg">
Alright. Just a guess here, but the instructor put the hat on the gator. My thought is that they were attempting to use their hat as an impromptu blinder so they could wrangle it. Instead, however, the gator could still see, didn’t like what was going on, and bailed.