#alligator guy

[dollyssparkle]

girls when they realize Lana is marrying the alligator guy

[fyanimaldiversity]

If you ever wondered what the best living vertebrate is, it’s the alligator gar in my totally not biased 100% scientifically backed opinion. They are just a flawless creature. Nothing wrong with them. Good tooth to snoot ratio, they have a winning smile.

They and other monster fish absolutely should NOT be in the hands of most private keepers at all and I do NOT support morph breeding of them because of that, but pretty fishy cute :c

[tero-ga]

The alligator man ;)

[kaijutegu]

How Do You Move A Crocodilian?

In light of a recent post, you may be wondering: just how CAN zoos move crocodilians without hitting them in the face with a shovel? I linked some good examples in the post above, but here's some more. Sometimes with small crocodilians if you want to move them, you can just... pick them up. Gently and carefully, but you can lift some smaller species without causing them much distress. Of course, there's a lot of trust that needs to be built first, but it can be done! Here's Cincinnati moving their Chinese alligators between habitats.

Great handling here. Two handlers on the gator at all times, pelvic and pectoral girdles supported, easy release into the water. This is a small species so this is safe, and look how relaxed and easy their body language is!

This is another safe way to move a crocodilian- leading them with a target! Obviously you can't pick up a fully grown American alligator very easily, but here's Brevard Zoo showing you how responsive their big boys are to this kind of training.

Zoos all over the world use different training techniques to work on their crocs. Here's a nice video from St. Augustine Alligator Farm that shows how they work their gharials to participate in their own healthcare:

Training is really important for human and animal safety. For the animals, it helps them participate in their own healthcare and know what to expect. It also helps mitigate social tensions, lets you see that every animal is getting the right amount of food, lets you easily work with them in and out of the water (you need to see them on land for an accurate body condition assessment), and provides mental and social stimulation for them.

But also: if your animals trust you and have some training, it protects both you and them in an emergency. When you work with large carnivores like crocodilians, you need to be able to predict the unpredictable, and be prepared for things to go wrong. Part of that preparation is setting the animals up for success. An animal that's scared of you isn't going to cooperate with medical care. It will be difficult to move in case of an emergency, and it will be harder to maintain control during a worst-case scenario.

If you have to evacuate your facility or something, and you need your croc to go into a carrier box, if it is trained to do that, it's not going to add yet another new, terrifying experience to a pile of new and terrifying experiences. Training is how zookeepers protect themselves and the animals, and when you compare this type of thing to more aversive techniques, it should be fairly easy to see why using the right training techniques is important!

[turtleblogatlast]

One of the biggest things that makes me see Leo as trans is absolutely the size of his carapace in comparison to his brothers’.

And I’m not talking about height! I’m specifically looking at his shell here, because when you compare him to the others, particularly Donnie who is nearly the same height as Leo, it’s very clear that Leo’s carapace is much longer in proportion to the rest of his body.

Like - standing side by side, even though Donnie is shorter his carapace ends noticeably higher up than Leo’s does. And I like this not only because it really helps push the idea that Leo could very likely be trans (or intersex!), but it’s also just a fun design difference between them.

(It also lends way to future scenarios of Donnie eventually getting taller than Leo, but sitting down still has Leo being the taller one haha.)

[chickenoptyrx]

....I just wanted to draw gators :T at this point these 2 are more 'a representation of my last 2 brain cells' then they are actual characters 😅

[smilysstuff]

Swamp AU more like everyone in ghillie suit

[hellagator]

Hey I can’t believe I forgot to post this awesome commission I did for @transalphamale !!!

[febrezeluna]

how the FUCK do you guys draw this guy hes so difficult to draw

[yellows-secret-blog]

Modern AU Arthur would watch the princess and the frog movie with Faroe in hopes she'd like jazz from childhood

[kororobus]

serious alligator turtle guy for ~Archtofen on FA! oh i love commissions like this so much

[terezis]

ok i have tell you guys about the bad way i've been playing bg3. it's purely roleplay and kind of embarrassing but also really fun. i have been calling it the isekai run. the basic jist of it is "what if the mind flayers swung by earth real quick before heading back to toril and you, the pc, were abducted by aliens"

i guess you could also do a "somehow i got trapped in this video game" thing which would make for some rly funny meta-gaming actually but there's precedent for the first thing since illithids and githyanki canonically travel between worlds. it could happen. it could happen to YOU

anyways i think the idea of a normal person from earth getting suddenly dropped into the high fantasy magic world is so fun and funny. the very definition of having to take everything in stride and just roll with it. nothing fazes "tav" because EVERYTHING here feels absurd, as though it's right out of a movie (or a dnd game)

also i really like thinking about how u would explain modern technology to gale of waterdeep. that's the embarrassing part of this. like what if you had to tell astarion about twilight. it's great

[fostersffff]

[cbdinodoodlez]

hi guys i finished lining and coloring these guys not too long after posting the sketches but then i exploded for like 2 days bc i couldn't get Greaseball's colors right but it's ok it worked out [I think]

i think new production supa sillaay!!! i'm doing the coaches next YAYAYAY

[hey-melissa]

rewatched equestria girls recently + felt inspired <3

[manticoreimaginary]

I, a humble new zealander, saw raccoons (about 20 of them!) for the first time in my life yesterday and let me tell you, it was everything I dreamed