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That sign’s there after learning the hard way that gators will leap up and eat a juicy baby if you dangle it out there like a piece of chicken.
In Europe the red circle means “no [whatever is inside the circle]”. It took me a while to figure that out as a Californian.
And to make matters more confusing, a red circle crossed out means “cancel the No from before” so like the end of a loading zone or the end of a no parking zone.
I know what this means
It is not remotely intuitive that it means that
That gator plays the maraccas.
Gotta lure the families towards it somehow 🤷🏻
And likes baby poop.
A gator yelling at a careless parent for putting their child in a precarious position is a weird thing to put on a sign…
The gator is running for superintendent and wanted the PR boost
We live near a park with alligators in an exhibit, they are well fed and lounge on the banks of a little pond, with some turtles, sunning themselves - so I always let my kids lean over the railing, not touch them or anything but I didn’t worry about it since they were fed & lazy.
Until one day, we saw one of them lunge at a turtle and grab it, moving so fast! Crunch crunch gulp. Which disabused me of two wrong ideas. One, that these alligators did not care to have a snack, and two, that nothing but eagles could eat turtles. Someone had told me that no animal could bite through a turtle shell, but that eagles would drop them from a great height to crack them open, and since I’d never seen another animal eat a turtle, I bought it.
So after that, no more leaning over.
Always always always always always always always always always always always be wary of all crocodilians. ALWAYS. Pseudosuchians have been around for 250 million years, and it’s not because of their personality or good looks.
Well the turtles were part of the exhibit or were there to be food for gators?
Part of the exhibit. They fed the gators chicken, the guy would stand on a platform and dangle the chicken on a pole, and get the gators to jump for it from the water. Like cats, it was kind of amazing. I always thought they were full of chicken. But maybe only one or two of them knew to jump for the chicken, who knows?
There’s an alligator in the pond at my office park, and one day riding in on my bike I saw him grabbing breakfast, very exciting. But everyone knows not to feed them, and to to be careful of them out in the wild! I did not know to be careful of the ones that were behind a very low fence in an exhibit!
Here is the one I see on my way to work sometimes.
Dino dino
I’m always impressed how different things can be normal depending on where you live. Alligators on the way to work! It never crossed my mind someone’s daily commute might include alligators
Like big angry squirrels
Ahh so location please been looking for where to dispose of my unwanted infants it also is a plus i will be helping feed the local wildlife.
Guessing Australia, but i would expect a second pic of the child in the gators mouth. Many of the warning signs there can be graphic.
But please only feed organic children to the crocodiles.
Best I can do is free range that’s been fed nothing but penicillin and other children.
When feeding consider size
There isn’t a sign “do not feed” either so…
Recommended even!
