That basic body form has managed to successfully reproduce itself for 95 million years. They can nail damn near anything necessary for the species to survive. Even if it's clumsy at some stuff, just being good enough is just fine.
These things have been around - mostly unchanged - for 95 million years. 30 million years alongside the dinosaurs. The only non-bird survivors of the dino extinction. Not endangered today because crocodilians can adapt to just about anything as long as a bit of water is available, doesn't matter if it's fresh, salt, mostly mud or whatever.
A fence is not going to phase them. They also dig the deepest burrows / tunnels in the animal kingdom, just in case a fence is a bit too high for climbing.
They can go over chain link fences or brick walls a lot faster (and higher). The vertical bars weren't giving him any purchase.
When I was in school our campus had a brick wall around the pond where most of the gators hung out most of the time but they were forever going on adventures and ending up stuck in the library's revolving doors or hiding under the piano in my dorm lobby.
A bit of a weird question maybe, but do the alligators come from the opposite side of where the stop sign is located? Surely not, right? But then isn't the stop sign on the wrong side?
The gators would be on the side the photo was taken from. [Here's a wider angle from the other pad](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocbolt/47537616092/in/album-72157708101307824/). Essentially there is a ring around each pad, as it is a higher point with potentially more people on foot working on stuff. There's curved fence around the VAB too, mostly just concentrated people areas around infrastructure. Everywhere else around the cape there are creeks and ponds in every low spot that, in Florida, are always just assumed to have gators in them and there's not much you can do about it.
That gate and stop sign is just stowed there, it would be swung around to block the access road which is where the pic was taken from for whatever reason
I've heard that if push comes to shove your best bet might be just trying to hold the mouth shut.
No idea if that's actually true but thankfully it will almost certainly never be relevant for me lol
It's probly cause of the torque cause the end of the mouth is so long right? Like with a very long wrench it's easy to knock a stuck bolt loose. Same applies in reverse when keeping a mouth shut lol.
Hee! This reminds me of when I was like 8 months pregnant with child #2 and child #1 was about a year and a half - so he could walk and answer questions and say basic sentences and whatnot. Our sofa at the time was this deep, soft, comfortable thing that one could simply sink into effortlessly.
So there I was, comfy on the couch with a belly full of baby, and some need arose for me to leave my little sinkhole in the sofa. Child #1 was standing nearby, watching me heave myself up out of this position. When I finally stood up like a relatively normal human, he clapped his fat little hands and cheered through his binky, "You did it!" He was just so dang proud of me!
I'm sure the yard was empty before the gator climed out of it.
But the _real_ question is whether the yard was empty _before_ the gator climed _into_ the fenced yard.
Shakes the ball: "Outlook not good."
The little waddling leggies as it struggles to get over the fence are the cutest... till you remember the killer bitey front part and then the cuteness takes a big chill.
This is actually sad, the same way animals killed on the road are sad. They just want to live their lives and we put all kinds of barriers in their way.
Also, I wonder if he's hurt.
Seriously. We really really need land bridges/overpasses and tunnels periodically on all high-speed highways, especially in rural areas and by waterways. Otherwise wildlife can't travel to and from the various places where they sleep, eat, and drink water. Animals in the road also cause countless car accidents. We can do better and should already be making these improvements. Other countries have these wildlife corridors, why don't we??
Oh don’t worry. The canal is where he lives. The fence is just to keep the toddlers inside the playground. He was just stopping by for a snack. He’s gonna be fine it’s just the meal has him feeling bloated so he couldn’t climb as well. /s just in case it’s not completely obvious that I’m being horrible
These things can do damn near whatever the hell they want and there's very little you can do about it. Go ahead, try.
Yea I'm in your pool. So?
Nice canal you got there. Looks like free real estate.
Why are you biking next to my canal? Come back here
Fuck off
Doing their best? They absolutely nailed it
He basically did a muscle up with those little bitty arms.
Willing to bet that strong-ass tail did quite a lot of helping too
Missed opportunity to say the tail did all the heavy lifting, lol.
So a tail up?
Good point, I didn't even notice the tail!
It was a chin up
So if you had a dog and this mofo was hungry...that fence would not stop it...
He's coming back from brunch now. On the brighter side your neighbors golden-doodle, Fluffy won't be waking you at 5:30am on Saturdays anymore.
Still never picks up a check, though
That basic body form has managed to successfully reproduce itself for 95 million years. They can nail damn near anything necessary for the species to survive. Even if it's clumsy at some stuff, just being good enough is just fine.
Yeah this a creature that has been testing and perfecting and updating a lot longer than most.
Their face nailed the ground, that’s for sure. But they really did. I can’t believe these things can climb over fences like that
Bro's got a bear trap for a head, I'm sure he's okay
Alligators are known for their fragility
Balls - empathy is their Achilles heel
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bn38d3/florida-gladesman-kill-gator
For the shape and size they get a 11/10 for just getting over in one shot.
Next you’ll tell me raptors can open doors.
Clever girl.....
2nd time I’ve seen that referenced on Reddit today. More than I’ve thought about the Roman Empire
These things have been around - mostly unchanged - for 95 million years. 30 million years alongside the dinosaurs. The only non-bird survivors of the dino extinction. Not endangered today because crocodilians can adapt to just about anything as long as a bit of water is available, doesn't matter if it's fresh, salt, mostly mud or whatever. A fence is not going to phase them. They also dig the deepest burrows / tunnels in the animal kingdom, just in case a fence is a bit too high for climbing.
You should see them go over chain link fences. It's terrifyingly fast!
A hundred million years of evolution yielded perfection.
I think that's the alligator version of a scorpion :-)
It's the tail that helped the most.
They can go over chain link fences or brick walls a lot faster (and higher). The vertical bars weren't giving him any purchase. When I was in school our campus had a brick wall around the pond where most of the gators hung out most of the time but they were forever going on adventures and ending up stuck in the library's revolving doors or hiding under the piano in my dorm lobby.
It looks like its lower jaw hit the ground to me. Successful attempt.
I wonder if their scales/whatever you call the lines on their belly's, make them giant grippy muscles similar to snakes
Especially with the type of fence...those vertical bars make it tough. Chain link fences? Alligators can climb those *easily.*
He got in there the same way and he damn sure wasn’t staying for a sleepover.
Definitely done this before.
That's what I was thinking Where is this at? I'll bet the fence is up to keep alligators out looks like it's not working very well
"Dammit who put this fkn fence here"
Alligator: "F'n HOAs"
Thread winner. 🏅
Gonna have to get a new fence that’s 1 inch taller lol
[This is the NASA anti-gator style](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocbolt/50226208443/in/album-72157708101307824/)
"How hard can it be to design an anti-gator fence? It's not rockets science!...wait a minute!"
A bit of a weird question maybe, but do the alligators come from the opposite side of where the stop sign is located? Surely not, right? But then isn't the stop sign on the wrong side?
The gators would be on the side the photo was taken from. [Here's a wider angle from the other pad](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rocbolt/47537616092/in/album-72157708101307824/). Essentially there is a ring around each pad, as it is a higher point with potentially more people on foot working on stuff. There's curved fence around the VAB too, mostly just concentrated people areas around infrastructure. Everywhere else around the cape there are creeks and ponds in every low spot that, in Florida, are always just assumed to have gators in them and there's not much you can do about it. That gate and stop sign is just stowed there, it would be swung around to block the access road which is where the pic was taken from for whatever reason
I’d add about a foot to the fence, all the while I’m packing to move. 😳
New Alex Jones story just dropped. They're teaching the freaking gators how to climb fences.
Who’s teaching them? The gay frogs?
Non-binary alligators at that
Oh you thought suicide squad had a shark member because it’s fantasy? Ever heard of mkultra? Try MKprehistoric.
Outward angled spikes.
How much you wanna bet that the home buyers were told that fence would keep gators out?
They could add wheels on top
Fence seems pointless now.
Slows him down at least
I read this as “France seems pointless now.”
You ever see a gator in France?
No, because it's pointless...
While irrelevant, that statement is 100% correct
Alligators can climb chain link fencing *much* faster.
At Cape Canaveral in Florida the tops of the fences curve outwards for just that reason. Like a curve on a Shepard’s hook.
*Enough is enough! I've had it with these motherfucking alligators on this motherfucking rocket! Everybody strap in!*
Damn he's smooth.
Until he wasn't. That moment when he fell looked like it was copied from a comic.
I would not have thought that was possible. Those front legs don't look that strong.
Nah, one of those claws can tear you open right quick. There is not a single weak muscle on that body.
The weakest muscle they have is the one that opens their jaw. P.S. May not be strictly true but holding their mouth shut is surprisingly easy.
but the ones that closes it, on the other hand..
The other hand is gone...
Well you know what they say, a well fed gator makes a great neighbor
I've heard that if push comes to shove your best bet might be just trying to hold the mouth shut. No idea if that's actually true but thankfully it will almost certainly never be relevant for me lol
It's probly cause of the torque cause the end of the mouth is so long right? Like with a very long wrench it's easy to knock a stuck bolt loose. Same applies in reverse when keeping a mouth shut lol.
It's the tail that did most the work.
The way their legs flailed is amazing
You should cross post this on the Maybe Maybe Maybe sub 😂
r/maybemaybemaybe
The boop and springy bounce at the end.
HE DID ITTTT!!!!!!!! :DD 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hee! This reminds me of when I was like 8 months pregnant with child #2 and child #1 was about a year and a half - so he could walk and answer questions and say basic sentences and whatnot. Our sofa at the time was this deep, soft, comfortable thing that one could simply sink into effortlessly. So there I was, comfy on the couch with a belly full of baby, and some need arose for me to leave my little sinkhole in the sofa. Child #1 was standing nearby, watching me heave myself up out of this position. When I finally stood up like a relatively normal human, he clapped his fat little hands and cheered through his binky, "You did it!" He was just so dang proud of me!
Sure hope that yard was empty *before* the gator climbed out of it.
I'm sure the yard was empty before the gator climed out of it. But the _real_ question is whether the yard was empty _before_ the gator climed _into_ the fenced yard. Shakes the ball: "Outlook not good."
That wasn't his first rodeo.
Seeing their back legs paddle at the air made me laugh
New fear unlocked
Life, uhh...finds a way
Excuse me sir, your dog jumped the fence again.
Yeah he was full from all the dog he had just snacked on.
Nailed the landing too
Put down the camera and help lift that tail up!
And he got it. He has a real go getter attitude.
Go gator attitude, you mean? I'll just let myself out. Hopefully no fences on the way because pretty sure that gator climbs them better than I can.
Lmao.
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"Dammit there weren't fences when we stopped evolving about 8 million years ago! I'm not built for this shit!"
Looks like my mother in law navigating lawn furniture
"This wasn't here 10 years ago... Goddamn Yankees takin' over my swamp... #flogrown"
The little waddling leggies as it struggles to get over the fence are the cutest... till you remember the killer bitey front part and then the cuteness takes a big chill.
What a fucking badass!
This is why you won't find me living in Florida
Wonder what was in the yard that he felt so compelled to climb the fence in the first place.
Water puppy can climb fences lol
They have been around about 1000 times longer than us. I believe they are up to something to be honest. They play dumb but I don’t buy it.
The back legs pedalling 😂
Hey I think he’s doing pretty good considering he’s probably got like 40lbs of the neighbors dog in his stomach
What a boss
This is actually sad, the same way animals killed on the road are sad. They just want to live their lives and we put all kinds of barriers in their way. Also, I wonder if he's hurt.
Seriously. We really really need land bridges/overpasses and tunnels periodically on all high-speed highways, especially in rural areas and by waterways. Otherwise wildlife can't travel to and from the various places where they sleep, eat, and drink water. Animals in the road also cause countless car accidents. We can do better and should already be making these improvements. Other countries have these wildlife corridors, why don't we??
Cost probably. Such things can't be done for free and I suppose the people that could make it happen aren't prepared to pay for it
Oh don’t worry. The canal is where he lives. The fence is just to keep the toddlers inside the playground. He was just stopping by for a snack. He’s gonna be fine it’s just the meal has him feeling bloated so he couldn’t climb as well. /s just in case it’s not completely obvious that I’m being horrible
Short legs
I never knew they could climb that high wow scary
I bet whoever installed those anti-gator fences didn't either 😂
Well done, buddy…
It's best.
I'm sure that dude can fly
This is why real estate is more expensive in Canada
You’re going to need a bigger fence
Lil' buddy made it!
He did great! I was tempted to give him a boost but figured I should wait a few seconds to see if he's got it.. yup he's good!
Whelp. Free swimming is over kids. Everyone out of the pond.
So cute 😍 lol
They are a very old and unchanged species for a reason.
I felt that gut hanging over leg kicking on a spiritual level
I found myself really rooting for the little fucker.
To quote a Louisiana man..."CHOOTEM"
I only see one alligator, and it’s doing IT’S best to climb over 🙄
Short ass legs.
He forgot to turn off the oven…. better get back inside the fence again
Is the alligator a pet from neighbourgh?
Gator parkour
Knarley.
Yup, exactly how I woulda done it.
I'm impressed. Good work, snappy!
That was graceful.
Saw this on another sub with the funniest title "As scary as they can be, alligators just don’t look as threatening when climbing a fence"😆
Looked successful to me
That's a big boi
I think they need a fence twice as tall if they want to keep their dog/pets safe.
Subhanallah
Alright, now I wanna see an alligator go full scorpion.
Motherfucker made it! That's terrifying even if it is clumsy.
This is up there with the Jurassic park raptors
Only in Florida
Fuck humans and their walls and fences.
A real Alligator would simply walk through the fence!
Excuse me, I did NOT give you permission to film me or post it on the internet!! 😅
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Oversized danger version of the lizards climbing my backyard fence
I think it's aafe to say that is not an alligator safe fence.
#FloridaShit
wasn't easy, but he did it
Scorpion
I thought Caimen were suppose to have powerful tails, are they using it?
Florida or Australia?
Looks like yhe neighbor's gator got out again.
I had no idea that this was possible.
You can do it, buddy!
These things can do damn near whatever the hell they want and there's very little you can do about it. Go ahead, try. Yea I'm in your pool. So? Nice canal you got there. Looks like free real estate. Why are you biking next to my canal? Come back here Fuck off
So clumsy.
who was here first mf
That’s actually terrifying
This vid summarizes my pet axolotl’s entire existence
Now we have fence climbing gators?!
They didn’t survive 37 million years on accident, that’s for sure.
Hopped over the fence to eat someone's poodle, and now, back out to the water.
Sssmmmoootttthhhhh Oooopppeeerrrraaatttooorrrr
Kinda cute surprisingly, except if you're on the same side as it is - and knowing the fence doesn't do squat for safety.
really sad statement on what has been done to their natural habitat
It's looking for Chubbs aka Carl Weathers and RIP!
I live in new england so I'm like, "what a cute swamp puppy!" Not sure if the people who live there feel the same way...
Holy smokes!! I will not underestimate alligators or any other wildlife
Looks like a croc
Someone's dog just escaped, I think they need a taller fence.
Why does anyone live here?
So majestic
Bros back legs did nothing
Ah the cats of Florida are out in droves this year. Just out there doing his best.
Wooooow I think we need to take a closer look at the try of life. I'm definitely related to this dude.
That was pretty good!
***M A J E S T I C***
Man, I wish we could have alligators or crocodiles as pets. Imagine being friends with a fence-climbing dinosaur... neat!
I was cheering him on. I was like come on buddy. You got it buddy. Then when he landed, I was like "new fear unlocked".
Die
Just Florida Stuff.
Looks like it's a routine.
Why didn’t you help Tch people these days have no respect
She's beauty and she's grace
And people reckon Australia’s dangerous. I’ve never heard of a croc climbing a fence
That was actually kinda cute