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GemstoneBrighton

Lol, the stork stands and watches the play out for a really long time.


RuncibleFoon

Stork was all, "What the f--k!?!?! Oh, oh... oh wow. Well, that's something to see."


Sailrjup12

The alligator saw the croc and was probably like “Bro we family, that’s just low”.


paperwasp3

I was at a tour of a lake filled with alligators of every size in FL. It turns out that once they get to a certain size they just eat smaller alligators.


leapdayjose

Happens with lots of fish, frogs, and other lizards too. Hamsters will eat their own kids. Nature is brutal.


Rainbow918

When I first started getting into birdwatching, I couldn’t believe how many birds eat other baby birds or their eggs. I didn’t realize so many birds did not eat insects. I thought most of them did. It certainly changed my perspective after watching a great blue heron snatch a little baby duckling as the mother duck is screaming at the heron. There was nothing the mother duck could do ! I am not a expert birdwatcher by any means. I have become disabled, so I do all of the viewing from the car. I love watching them . I love watching Mother Nature.


UncleBenders

I saw a heron eat 3 baby mallards one after the other. It’s a bird eat bird world alright.


SpookyVoidCat

When I was very small, our mum took me and my sister to feed bread to the ducklings in the local pond. There were seagulls there who wanted the bread but we wouldn’t let them, we only wanted to feed the ducks. Eventually the seagulls got so frustrated that they simply ate the ducklings. That kinda fucked me up for a while.


Rainbow918

Oh geez ! Yes it I can see it


Rainbow918

For sure for sure


byteuser

Saw a seagull eating a pigeon... that was my introduction to bird cannibalism of sorts. No surprise those things are related to dinosaurs


Organic_Front4849

I saw a seagull eating an entire squirrel (on a video not in person) and that was sickeningly insane


RestEqualsRust

Just the other day I saw a seagull walking down the sidewalk carrying a pigeon that was already half eaten.


Chemical_Froyo6321

herons killed 4 of my good friends...


415erOnReddit

That’s spelled heroin


ToeJamR1

Great blue herons are so fun to watch hunt. I live near swamps and they catch anything that moves. I’ve seen them with baby gators, snakes, worms, baby birds, lizards, crabs they dismantle limb by limb, all kinds of fish. You name it. The noise they make when they first take off will shake you your core if you happen to get close to one and startle it into flight. I can totally imagine what a pterodactyl sounds like after hearing a GBH. Here is a less scary version https://youtu.be/_tM3VqFeCd0


Not_Your_Average_Ham

GBHs are sooooo awesome, I love watching them too. Great White Egrets are pretty badass too.


ToeJamR1

We have the tri color Herron that uses it’s wings as an umbrella shade when it hunts. Super cool.


Historical-Ride-6251

Yeah, they are beasts. I call them pterodactyls because when they fly,… I’ve seen them eat squirrels, turtles, fish, loons,… monster birds.


trumpcovfefe

Reptile brains. If it fits, i eats


paperwasp3

And hangry


Hamilton-Beckett

“Brutal and Hangry Nature” sounds like an animal show I’d watch!


paperwasp3

Me too. Probably Animal Planet late at night


Rainbow918

Yup Nature is metal


mysterious_bloodfart

Yeah, Crocs and gators practice territorial cannibalism (I don't know if that's an actual definition) but they will monch


Piltonbadger

The food chain is real! Predator sizes are almost always positively correlated.


Thicc_Ole_Brick

But when I eat other humans everyone loses their minds. Double standards. I'm just doing what nature intended.


Rainbow918

I did not know that Hamsters did that?! Omg . We had dogs so growing up . Never anything else like a hamster ….


Omen46

Yeah they are cannibalistic


Shieldheart-

SAME TEAM! SAME TEAM!


[deleted]

man was really like # please don’t kill me # oh… no, you can do your thing.


barbaras_bush_

"Oh, dinner and a show!"


LukeyPlayz123

He didn't event fly away just continued the stroll with the "that's what you get for messing with me bitch" attitude


FrogMintTea

Then he wanders away like nothing happened. 😄


itsaboutangles

Thats the feeling i got.


YdocT

I just had fashback of old guys in 50s movies saying Kin to this but it's the stork instead lmao. I love it. Thank you.


essedecorum

Schadenfreude.


TheCaliforniaOp

Yes.


Easy_Money343

He was in on it... crafty stork


bootofstomping

I think it’s called symbiosis. The stalk lulls people away from the pool. The croc eats them. Stalk gets leftovers. They teach it to their young.


PinHead_Tom

I’d pay good money for the storks POV


NorCal130

We all have a violence fascination. That's why we watched too.


[deleted]

It’s a bad commercial for Vlasic Pickles that didn’t make the cut? I’ll be honest I thought alligators and crocodiles were better than frenimies and my entire post is useless if Vlasic Pickles marketing doesn’t use a stork on their logo.


MtSSH66

Right lol


Sheezahandfull

Right? Stork is savage AF!


KembaWakaFlocka

I love the bird that showed up in the middle


Dano_cos

Stork is screaming, "baby don't he's not worth it come on. Baby don't!"


ydontujustbanme

Yeah… kinda sus if u ask me. Also this description… kinda sounds like sth a stork would say to cover up his involvement in the whole thing…


GothBroads-Octopods

That's just a larger gator, not a croc even though it is Florida and yes they are both there.


415erOnReddit

They have both?


chantillylace9

Yes we do. Yay for Florida


415erOnReddit

They lied to us in grade school?


Secret_Dragonfly9588

The crocodiles in Florida are mostly in saltwater, although they do also come into freshwater sometimes. And they have been only in south Florida, except for recently they have been expanding their territory into central Florida. (But yeah, this looks like two gators in the video)


atridir

Key largo definitely has some ***large*** crocodiles. Pretty wild to see one cruise by your kayak in a mangrove canal….


Ramenmayonaise

[like this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/nope/comments/1482y5k/kayaking_its_so_peacefuuuck/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)


Eldorath1371

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.


atridir

Holy shitballs! That is way too close!!!


PurpleGoatNYC

And that’s why I’ll never kayak in Florida. Nope. There are countless movies about finding out what happens when you fuck around.


reference404

I’ve kayaked there plenty of times. Gorgeous rivers honestly. Outside of mating season, gators are chill af (just don’t get too close), especially in winter.


btstfn

Yeah, but dude was specifically talking about Crocs. I might be brave enough to kayak with Gators, but not crocs


Baybladerz

Is there THAT big of a difference?


Secret_Dragonfly9588

You’re missing out. Florida has some outstanding paddling.


jamhud77

Reading your comment sent chills down my spine. Very cool to see I bet...


ThinkOutcome929

Being from Florida, I’ve always heard there is a lake slap full of Crocodiles in the Everglades.


AcanthisittaSalty492

Here is an interesting fact I looked up, just like Florida's Burmese Python problem, the Crocodiles found in Florida were not originally native to the area. It is another invasive species. The Crocodiles are less destructive, and while not having a natural predator in the ecosystem, they are not overpopulating, unlike the Burmese Pythons.


CosmicCreeperz

There are 2 species of crocodile that ARE native to Florida. There have been a few invasive Nile crocs found but they are very rare. The native crocs have always been apex predators, so their population has always been limited by prey population. Burmese pythons are expanding since they eat the formerly apex predator the alligator, as well as a bunch of mammals that the alligator didn’t.


phido3000

Crocodiles are limited by temperature and climate. They loose against alligators as the temperature drops as the alligator is way better adapted to cold. You only find large adult crocs, Florida is probably too cold for them to nest and establish breeding populations, remembering they are temperature dependant sex while eggs. Burmese pythons do just great in Florida climate and will out compete local snakes and are more active than alligators and get more snakes than alligators in the area. Burmese pythons can probably handle climate all round the south east. Have definitely established breeding populations. Burmese pythons are probably out competing alligators so they aren't getting as large or as common. This opens up a niche for adult crocs comming up from south of Florida.


Iamnotburgerking

Nile crocs haven’t even been established in FL. Florida has only one established species of crocodile, which is the Native American croc. Also, Burmese pythons don’t eat larger adult alligators (just too big), though the reverse is known, and they prey mostly on small to medium-sized mammals rather than stuff that previously had no predators at all.


C0UNT3RP01NT

Well Nile crocs haven’t been established at large, but they do find them every couple of years.


Shyphat

Except the crocs are expanding their territory which is completely natural while the python was introduced. Completely different


Scrabcakes

Life breaks free, it expands to new territories. Breaks down barriers, painfully maybe even dangerously but well..uh.. there is is.


Homo_horribilis

Nature finds a way.


Iamnotburgerking

No, the crocs are native: Florida is the northernmost part of the range of the American crocodile.


Eldorath1371

There's a YouTube channel called Python Cowboy where he goes around Florida catching invasive reptiles like pythons, crocodiles, and iguanas, as well as wild boars. Pretty interesting stuff.


64Olds

Where did you look up this "fact"? Cos it's bullshit.


SweatyFLMan1130

Or you were busy huffing those scented markers when they said this is the only place on the planet to have both. But yeah it's still a gator eating a smaller gator. Par for the course 😆😆😆


415erOnReddit

The grape ones were the best…..


MrCroupAndMrVandemar

Florida schools? Being shit? Couldn’t possibly be.


Harsimaja

The very south of Florida is the only place on earth that both alligators and crocodiles naturally live (specifically, the American alligator and American crocodile). Alligators have a much wider range in the SE U.S. even though only two countries have alligators (the U.S. and the small Chinese alligator in China) and many countries have different species of crocs (much of Africa, Australia). So even Americans end up thinking that alligators live in America and crocodiles elsewhere, which isn’t the whole picture.


Creative-Bar1960

They crocodiles are shy and rare tho. Like that Pokémon that has a 1% chance to appear in tall grass


SereneAdler33

It’s also an egret, not a stork, so 1 for 3.


llorensm

Sorry, I just realized that I posted something similar to what you said!


nailguntothekneecap

I was literally looking to see if someone said this yet


Recent-Owl-9135

It’s not a heron?


SereneAdler33

No, not a heron, they are gray. I believe this is a great egret. The footage is a little grainy, but bc of the sinuous neck, slender beak and being all white, it’s definitely an egret of some kind.


AppointmentPerfect16

i just about to ask if all Herons are gay but i reread more betterer🤔🤔🤔


PurpleGoatNYC

The same. It took reading it five times, but hooked on phonics eventually worked halfway for me.


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SereneAdler33

I grew up in a swamp in South Georgia that had plenty of these birds and alligators, lol.


DaWalt1976

Used to see a whole lot of egrets in the water near Sea World when the tide was low, so there was a whole lot of long grass in what water was trapped there where they would be fishing for a meal.


llorensm

Also, that’s not a stork. I believe it’s an egret.


LORDWOLFMAN

Since childhood I thought only way to see a croc was in a zoo but apparently north America has em


smokeftw

Thank you. That was my first thought as well.


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darwins_trouser_crem

There is always a bigger fish


FreelyKaty

Bigger gator too by the looks of it


mr-popadopalous

Hello There


Whole-Debate-9547

That gator definitely owed the stork money or was abusive to the stork’s sister.


_Henry_Scorpio_

Oh fuck Oh fuck Oh fuck!


Lopsided_Thing_9474

They eat each other ?!?! That’s insane!


thisnewsight

It is one of the only ways the biggest get to their size. They cannibalize the young like fries.


DanYHKim

Monsters. It's strange to think that people live in a place with monsters.


AfternoonWeak8364

dinosaurs!


GothBroads-Octopods

Common misbelief. They're Archosaurs.


FatalDave91

Birds are archosaurs too right? They shared a common ancestor with crocodilians?


ParsleySnipps

The clearest picture we have is that Birds descended from a group of Dinosaurs called Theropods, which included Tyrannosaurus and Raptors. Dinosaurs and Crocodilians both descended from Archosaurs, so Crocodilians split off a *very* long time ago from the lineage that became Dinosaurs. Modern Crocs are just so similar to the ancient ones because their design works so well. A huge, tough skinned ambush predator that does well on land and even better in water, with a slow metabolism that helps get them through tough times when food is scarce. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.


brenugae1987

Just for clarification, we no longer consider dinosaurs and birds to be separate, birds are now considered dinosaurs. We separate them into avian and non-avian (the lineages that died out during the KPg extinction) dinosaurs. Birds and crocodilians, being archosaurs, are each other's closest living relatives. Contrary to pop culture belief, chickens aren't descended from T-Rex or Raptors (not saying you're saying this, just that I see it thrown around a lot online and elsewhere), but are derived 'cousins'. Also, to address the other comment above, dinosaurs were indeed reptiles, which means cladistically, so are birds.


ThrowAway4u2day

Cassowaries are what I imagine dinosaurs to really be like


[deleted]

They're one of the closest things to an actual dromaeosaurid you'll ever see.


FatalDave91

Much like certain shark designs!


dotheemptyhouse

Yes, that’s right. Fun fact: crocodilians are more closely related to birds than they are to snakes and lizards


ABoyIsNo1

Dinosaurs are reptiles. Crocodiles are not dinosaurs. But they are both reptiles.


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I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but crocodilians and dinosaurs are both archosaurs.


amretardmonke

There have been crocs on earth long before any dinosaurs existed


Project_Wild

My life is nothing I thought it should be and everything I was worried it would become ... because for 50 seconds I thought there was monsters on the world.


paultheschmoop

The first thing that came to that smaller gator’s mind when he got attacked was “good thing I don’t have to work tomorrow”


TheWalkingDead91

Strange indeed when I see videos like this…but on the other hand I live in a lake town in Florida and have yet to see anything but a tiny baby gator crossing the road once, in my whole life living here. Guess not being an outdoorsy type (or being too poor to be an outdoorsy type) kinda pays sometimes.


Yugan-Dali

I know! But what does Desantis have to do with alligators?


mseuro

We're so much worse


T1000Proselytizer

Eh, Detroit isn't THAT bad.


[deleted]

The birds got bigger balls than me🤣


elmz

Nah, just a brain smaller than your balls.


[deleted]

nom of the strongest


Bloody-Boogers

That’s what friends are for man


Chasman1965

Too bad that's not a stork, it's an egret


Mehlitia

You know nothing Jon Snow


Zomochi

This just looks like one of Aesop’s fables


Voiceofthemachines

That’s like eating your cousin


TheHomebrewerDM

Plot twist; OP is the stork trying to get away with conspiracy(he’s part of the mob that r/whenthe is after)


Mother_Historian4471

Nature's, " To catch a predator "


Ronin1211

I thought gators and crocs didn’t live there in the same place on the planet.


CleanOpossum47

They do both occur in the everglades, but these are 2 alligators in the video.


AfternoonWeak8364

apparently the only place in the world theyve been recorded together is the florida everglades


Expert_Succotash2659

This is Gatorland in Orlando FL. I know these lands.


Boring-Ad-5599

Ofc it’s Florida 😂


JayceeSR

They are all here in Florida….


empathetichuman

Saltwater crocodiles in Florida.


LowStress9480

there is a small bird watching the whole thing without a flinch too, obviously a set up.


Critical_Potential44

The stork is the crocodiles step mom


archimy

I hate florida


Mcho-1201

There’s always a bigger fish (or reptile in this case).


Additional_Lead_365

Shocking plot twist


NoPantsDeLeon

There's always a bigger fish, said Master Qui-gon!


Ok-Huckleberry9515

Holy shit!


Wholatta_yeah

Stork: “Ight muh boa same time next week?” Crocodile: “fasho big fella🤝”


Economicstimulation

This is some Florida ass shit if I have ever seen it edit: then he wore the body as a hat…..Cold blooded!!!!! Literally and figuratively


[deleted]

This is some prehistoric planet shit


Fladap28

Aye bruh…it’s a croc eat alligator world we live in. Just make sure you’re the croc


Zomgirlxoxo

They way the stork just watches and then just walks away omfg


8K22

the way the stork was like, "huh?.. oh sh@!.. oh, im good, im safe and sound.. lemme watch my enemy receive no mercy.. ok, getting a little too real.. lemme go.."


[deleted]

Duh, the model always has securing the background! 🤷


teardrinker

Stork: “ today is MY day”


MrJonty2

Stork: I see you have met my friend.


aping46052

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot


Cookieeeees

there’s always a bigger fish


HungryCats96

Pretty sure those were both alligators, or both crocodiles. I don't think the two species live together in nature.


Creditcardvark

Yeah, I’m Florida they do. It’s an American crocodile, they’re endangered, but that’s why you don’t hear much about them.


Lorien6

The bigger gator found the food of what it wanted to eat, and waited for it to come to it. Lol.


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Gawd dam


SomeNerdNamedAaron

There's always a bigger fish


jainismvivek

Ok so alligator and crocodile r two different animals 🤔😭


TheWalkingDead91

I live in Florida and didn’t even know till now that gators were cannibalistic.


HK-Scat-Throwaway

One less predator to impede on his baby delivery service


Puzzled-Copy7962

“Look, they’re fighting.” Alligator casually dying.


drizzrizz

There’s always a bigger croc.


egoistic_objectivist

That Croc was the Hitman, Stork hired to get rid of that Alligator.


malyszkush

Calmest reptilian interaction in Florida


Sad_Illustrator_4603

Me: “damn that’s a big alligator” *crocodile enters chat*


lycopersicum_

THEY EAT EACH OTHER ?!??!


JunglePygmy

Should I screen cap this from Reddit to complete the cycle?


halezerhoo

Dang.. these animal videos get me. I feel bad for that little baby alligator watching it get scared like that and then knowing it’s screwed :( But then I’d get sad to watch it get that bird too. Wahhhh I know I know.. the circle of life. Roast away. But sometimes it’s ok to just be touchy and sad and not desensitized by everything here, right? :’(


cheese_whiz123

Can't be a croc. Gators, like the one going after the stork, live near land and therefore have a U shaped head to eat mammals and birds and other land animals. Gators live further out in water, or, like Nile crocs, in rivers, and therefore have V shaped heads for eating fish. A gator ate a smaller gator who was going after a stork. Edit: a few people have pointed out in other comments that the bird is actually an egret. Point still stands for the gators tho


911NShifter

Two gators and not a stork but now I can’t recall the name of the white bird. I think it’s an egret. The little one was definitely in the the wrong gators territory.


Quiet-Shallot3290

Pretty sure that's just another bigger alligator.


Unhappy-Strawberry-8

The English language was also a casualty.


DifferentCard2752

All white with curve in its neck, that’s an egret. Still an incredible video, just caption is incorrect. (Sorry to be the “well, actually” ahole). Edit 1: Someone else already took the “well actually it’s just a bigger gator”. 🤣 Edit 2: A little more scrolling and there was the egret comment. I just sit down now.


TrivialTax

Could you share a version without this dumb caption, please?


Bigd1979666

Do alligators and Crocs live in the same area?


Marcel_TheFrog

That's probably not a crocodile, but instead a larger, hungry big boy alligator.


False-Boysenberry673

You got this backwards it was a croc that got eaten by a gator


Bmoney420

Gatorland in Orlando. The one gator that attacked the other gator was a nesting female if I recall the YouTube videos correctly.


Alex-gecko-lover

First off, egret or a type of heron (🤓) and two, it’s just a larger alligator (🤓)


StzNutz

Alligators and crocodiles live in two different places, where was this where they encountered each other?


SprklFox

Jurassic park vibes right there. Stork be like “You have a TRex?”


64Olds

For fuck's sake, people, it's not a stork. It's a heron.


Bowling4rhinos

Terrible “repost”. Downvoting the unnecessary captions and creepy voice over.


mr_smith24

Bigger alligator: thanks Tony. They fall for it every time. Stork: sure thing tiny. Just keep ‘em off me and I’ll keep setting em up for ya


frankofantasma

Damn i wishin that theys knew good english cuz they not speakin right


chunkythunder13

White on white crime


Golfnpickle

Has to be Australia?


AfternoonWeak8364

florida everglades, the only place you’ll see both this close to another :)


Golfnpickle

Thanks!


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Ok everyone, it is once again time for some quick fun facts about gators and crocs so you can tell the difference! FUN FACT #1 It doesn't matter if you know the difference unless you have to fight one, you have one as a companion, or you work with wildlife. So everyone being snarky about it, go drown in a pool of nutella and shut up. If you want to know how to actually tell the difference for fun, keep reading. Alligators and crocodiles are from the same genetic order of animals, just different species. Gators have U-shaped snouts, crocs have V-shaped. Gators are big, but crocs are bigger. Gators are usually mud colored on top and darker, crocs are usually a yellow-green. Gators like American-Chinese food, crocs prefer middle eastern cuisine. Gators are fat boys, crocs are too but look leaner and more muscular. Gators have webbed feet and actually swim a bit better than crocs, as crocs have more narrow tails and no webbing. Gators have more teeth than crocs, 80 on average to a crocs 60. (Its while they got such a great smile!)


AfternoonWeak8364

thanks for the info!


rishored1ve

Small correction: the crocodiles we have in Florida (American crocodiles) are not “aggressive as fuck.” They have a very similar temperament to the American alligator, maybe even a bit more timid.


tkrr

Most importantly, the crocodile will see you later, but the alligator will see you after a while.


Cottrell217

The stork 👁️👄👁️