Wild gator handling! This is how all the “nice” gators you see me working with start when they’re first caught! This is a freshly caught rescue nuisance gator and is NOT aggressive, but defensive, it doesn’t yet understand that I am not going to hurt him and am not a threat, but repeatedly handling him like this will make him realize I don’t hurt him. This is part of the “mellowing out” process. Seeing a gator act like this upsets people, but this is the reality of the work we do, if you don’t h