Gators will lift their head up out of the water to swallow food, but when eating smaller pieces they can keep their head underwater and just swallow a little bit of water along with the food. This also brings up the very common myth that they cannot bite underwater which is of course laughably false! More info on him from previous posts-At @evergladesholidaypark Seven is our biggest gator at EHP, he’s 10ft and likely around 350-400lbs. He gets the name 7 for a weird reason- alligators have five

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My time with the gators isn’t always feeding and jumping, a lot of time is spent just chilling and hanging out with them, getting them used to my presence and that I’m not a constant food dispenser. This video isn’t as exciting as what I usually show, but I thought it was important to show this is also an important part of the training process and how I acclimate them to me. Our rescue gators are wild caught nuisance gators that would’ve otherwise been destroyed. The state of Florida destroys 8,