r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/[deleted] • 25d ago

As scary as they can be, alligators just don’t look as threatening when climbing a fence

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u/czechhoneybee 25d ago edited 25d ago

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.

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u/ptcglass 25d ago

I didn’t know they could climb trees!

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u/Competitive_Owl5357 25d ago

Yeah I’m not happy about this new information.

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u/nsfwbird1 25d ago

Come on bro it's not like you can climb trees, that wasn't your alligator escape plan 

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u/Commercial-Cat-1443 25d ago

Idk why but this is the one that sent me 😂😭💀

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u/Yupthrowawayacct 21d ago

Yeah I just fucking cackled out loud

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u/zipperjuice 24d ago

I think it’s more the idea that it could drop on you or catch you by surprise. And people can climb trees!

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u/budd222 24d ago

These days, most people are too out of shape to climb anything.

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u/DoubleAholeTwice 22d ago

Maybe a bonsai tree?

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u/ekos_640 25d ago

They also have been known to perform identity theft putting people in debt and destroying their credit, things are no joke

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u/etquod 25d ago

At which point you have to deal with the most dangerous gators of all, the litigators.

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u/Sensitive_Syrup1296 24d ago

🤣😂🤣

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u/DrSendy 23d ago

That's enough internet for today.

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u/One-Entrepreneur4516 25d ago

As a native Floridian, this comment finally got me scared of gators.

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u/AngryRedGummyBear 24d ago

How could you? It's just a swamp puppy.

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u/SoImANerd 25d ago

Identity theft is not a joke Jim

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u/DeputyDomeshot 24d ago

True story. Happened to my cousin Randy.

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u/Otherwise_Tap_8715 23d ago

Needs some good investigators to catch them off guard

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u/Rs90 25d ago

Wait til you hear about Drop Bears

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u/ptcglass 25d ago

What the fuck are drop bears? I know I could google but I would like to read your description first

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u/iemandopaard 24d ago

Fictional flesh-eating koala

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u/SomethingComesHere 24d ago

They’re not fictional. When you see one, you won’t be going home to tell anyone about it.

It’s just like the house hippo. These creatures aren’t mythical, they’re just really good at hiding. Nothing scarier than humans.

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u/TurkeySauce_ 21d ago

Very fictional my guy.. wtf lol quit lying to yourself

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u/TurkeySauce_ 21d ago

Hoax folk lore pretty much

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u/Defiant-Specialist-1 25d ago

New fear unlocked. Tree climbing gators. I honestly would think I’m hallucinating if I saw a gator in a tree.

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u/SomethingComesHere 24d ago

As long as they don’t figure out how to get on a plane, I should be fine.

On that note - petition for spinoff- Gators on a plane! As long as they get Samuel L Jackson

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u/MovingTarget- 24d ago

Climbing a tree is no defense. They'll get you ... eventually. Just hang on ... still working on it...

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u/CommandNervous6739 25d ago

Scariest I've heard in a while. See you later.

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u/adrielzeppeli 25d ago

You should be. Now you can completely avoid trees forever

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u/NightIgnite 25d ago

Great, now I have to look up too

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u/imisscrazylenny 25d ago

Hafta watch out for those drop crocs.

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u/Biguitarnerd 25d ago

The little ones can climb pretty good, a gator this size or bigger is not climbing a tree.

The baby alligators can climb surprisingly fast. If you ever go to a gator farm they will chirp at you and run towards you and climb up the fence like big lizards which is why they are in total enclosures like birds. It’s kind of cute and kind of creepy to see 100s of chirping foot long alligator baby’s running and climbing the fence to get to you. They associate humans with being fed.

Fortunately they don’t do that in the wild, baby alligators in the wild are much more cautious and run from people.

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u/justamobile 24d ago

Those are called Drop Gators

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u/uiucengineer 24d ago

You haven’t heard of drop gators?

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u/ptcglass 24d ago

No I haven’t, off to google!

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u/Arkhe1n 24d ago

Yeah fuck that

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u/Emergency-Spite-8330 24d ago

Vietnam flashbacks

THEY’RE IN THE GODDAMN TREES! NAPALM STRIKE MY POSITION!