@@chosen1826 okay furry

My croc loves me tho he's different! #Lmao

Yep, encouraging that he is under no illusion as to how dangerous it is to be with them, a healthy respect for an apex predator

​@@LegendaryArchiverHe doesnt deep down.

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Lol. Fuckin 15 min video about how Casper doesn’t love him. Could have just made it 3 tops.

@@mclovin7505 He's one of the only herpetologists trying to stress extremely important points like this. He has to say it so often for a reason.

@@kreeperkiller3223yeah. Some people have no choice but to shout it from the top of the mountain over and over again because the people he is trying to reach are that loony.

If you can ride a cheata you can ride a gator😃

@@spankthemonkey3437 Except most people would prob beat a cheetah to death or slam it to death. Good luck trying that against big alligators.

@@Rodemu Harold and Kumar rode a cheetah I'm pretty sure Gators are possible 🤷

That's not what it means. You can totally tame animals over a single generation, people have been doing it with wild horses for probably close to 6 millennia. When it comes to horses, it's called breaking, as in you break a horse. The term you refer to is domestication. Domestication takes generations, taming, usually does not. It can, for animals with VERY short lifecycles, but it doesn't have to.

Tamed is 1 life. Domestication is generations.

@@cheeks7050 Damn, Chris lied to me!

@@notnull5878​​⁠I think it’s a more specific principle of animals that are social in nature. Im an Applied Behavior Analysis student and I’d say that you can train all animals- conditioned responses and such (Pavlov’s dogs for example), but you can only tame social animals, and you can only domesticate tame-able animals over many generations. Dogs are born with a natural inclination to recognize humans because of those generations of breeding. You can teach a wild horse to work with you because they’re inclined to work with their own kind, whereas alligators are solo animals that are vulnerable to conditioning, but that’s like all animals.

​@@notnull5878 Honey, there is no such a thing as "wild horses". Horses was one of the first species humans domesticated.. There is only one species of horses that still wild, the Przewalski, which is a mongolian horse. Every other horse descends of a domestic species, which it means they are inclined to work with humans. In biology, it's called feral, which is an animal that is domesticated but has been released back on nature. They still carries the domestic behaviors, that's why you can "tame" a "wild" horse.

He more has a symbiotic relationship with him

Glad it was helpful!

right, lol

It is more like how reptiles are reptiles. Reptiles are not social creatures, they do not bond, they do not care, they cannot comprehend "emotion", Crocs and Reptiles do not "love" eachother or bond in any capacity, Crocs at best tolerate eachother, and majority of time they want to kill eachother. Casper does not love him, Casper tolerates him.

There is a fine line between man and animal. I don't know where that line is! 😃

@@hackman669 it’s really not that fine. Go spend sometime with them. Sit and watch both people and animal. You will see the line soon enough. Specially if you are realistic trying to study the animal. If you don’t figure it out fast enough you will be bitten, stomped, mauled, or dead. Its not a matter if those things will happen to you. It’s a matter of when and how bad. If you deal with the animal like they can do any of those things at anytime no matter how much you love them you can have your percentage drop down to 1%. That is only if you realize that animals live in the moment for the most part and they are looking for what they need to do to get what they want.

Perfectly Said. This INCLUDES DOGS!

​@@Holy_Athletics dogs do love us, just not the same way a human would. It's a different type of bond.

What is love, by that logic how many humans do you think feel love?

@@vertigoz I would describe love as emotional closeness. A feeling that your lives are so intertwined that you would feel intense emotional pain if you were to lose them. Exactly how many people feel this is something I have little knowledge of so I won't pretend to know the answer.

@@Cold-Blooded-Jay Would you say words are needed to feel love?

He's trained. Not cute.

@@Valconize still doesn't mean he can't be cute for a Gator. Not all gators are killers.

Dinosaurs are not cute.

​@@Gaian-Commander the man in video half an hour talked about that all gators are predators and killers and no need to treat them as a pet 😂😂

​@@Valconizehe's still cute

Chimps frighten me more than anything...more than tigers, more than polar bears. Then, polars, grizzlies, and bison. Bison are super crazy.

I read that the owner was giving that chimp Xanax. It was a possibility that he was going through withdrawls. Such abuse.

It’s like he’s trained to be a cool youtuber

I'm still not that convinced though. He's very experienced with alligators, but wild animals are just much wider than alligators and their cousins. Mammals are complete difference from reptiles. Can a cheetah loves you? How can I take Chris's opinions and anecdotes, even his experiences, to get close to an answer for that question?

@@TranNguyen-sw7wu I think some of it requires logic, yes his specific field is reptiles so he would only know more about them than someone who solely was mammal based, but most people have been told NOT to go up to animals because life isn't a magical fantasy and they will attack you. I'm happy he's finally telling people "enough dammit you can't own wild animals because you think you're a Disney princess" (not his exact words of course but it still stands). I just think his reasoning for why Casper not loving him made sense ^w^

That dude was nuts.

Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is another. Roy thought he was "special" too and believed he had magical connections to all his big cats. Oy! 🐅

He did have something special; But history shows he ultimately lost respect for the animals he shared his space with sadly for him and his significant other. @@hotties3v3n

This girl I used to be friends with had her Pitbull from when he was 8 weeks old, at 5 years old he got mad and attacked her other dog and almost killed it and when she tried to separate them, he completely bit off her middle finger, people always forget that animals are animals.. even when we love them!

True. But there is a difference. Demestic animals and mammals. Especially dogs do have the capability to become attached and "love". Reptiles don't even have that. If you raise a dog right, they won't attack other pple. Unless that person attacks you. Some breeds are less aggressive. But there are tons of pits that won't attack a fly. They are usually more aggressive towards other dogs. But most are not aggressive if brought up right.

Thank you!

No that should definitely not be the takeaway here lol. Anyone who’s worked with animals, or even owned a pet, knows plenty of animals are capable of, and express, feelings just as complex as humans Just not giant lizards

I dont think it is a "human instinct", maybe more so for women.

​@@vids595...what?xD

Tons of animals are VERY capable of love. Gators are too, to a level. Like how they care for their young. It's just not the exact same as us mammals, their brain work differently, they experience the world in other ways. So maybe it can’t be called love, but at the same time emotions are just instincts with some extra steps for motivation, so...? But gators are for example very capable of playing, as well as doing so with both other gators and other animals. So its not as if they are soul less. I like to think that when accidents happen, it is because we are not the animal we are interacting with. Like with horses. A horse shows love by chewing on others horses backs and necks. But when they do it on is, even if its a show of love, it can cause real damage. Now, a gator is far from a horse, but imagine if Casper was chilling with another gator. Then a nip would not matter at all. It would not harm his pal. But when that pal is human, it causes major damage, and then its just instinct/reflex to keep exploring whatever he managed to get in his jaws, and oh its food, how tasty!! And thats how you loose a hand. Its not ill will, it's not the animal being robotic, it's just a natural progression of speciffic patterns of behaviour. Kinda like a toddler swallowing a rock that ended up in its mouth while exploring. It just happens, and we need to know how to avoid starting that chain of events if we wanna interact with these types of animals. Same with big cats. A lion can take being swatted or bitten by another lion, but the same behaviour, even in play, can kill a human. So we must learn how lions tell each other to stop, and use it to regulate what kind of behaviour is accepteble around us. Like how you can tell your cat to pull in their claws when cuddling. It is all about viewing the world from the animals perspective and realizing that we must learn their language, not the other way around. Set hard limits, know what triggers what behaviour, and how to avoid getting in the way.

@@maximillian1109typed all tht and idk Why I read it but I’m probably the only person who will read it 😂

Noted!

Id love to see him get bite by casper to see the gators reaction

​@@cristhianyadhir5888wtf?

@@cristhianyadhir5888 I would rather not see it happen!

I bet if Chris got into that pond when Casper hasn't had anything to eat, there will definitely be a different response as well.

@@justthatgirl-ct4jo you must be new here

Crocodiles see you in a while. Alligators see you later.

@@rosewood151 lmao…..science wins again!

Facts 😎

caught that too

To be fair, that's the same face I make when I settle into the couch with my favorite brand of popcorn.

It's like the scene where the T-Rex drops a gigantic walnut after hearing that it sbrain is the size of a walnut.

So funny 😂

Thanks!

Lol same!

I think its more a symbiotic relationship. Birds clean gator teeth and they don't eat the Birds because they are a source of convenience. But if it was hungry it would definitely eat the bird.

​@@brandondriver99 But they do not bond with the birds. Chris is probably like another gator to Casper, with all the good and bad that comes with that. A lot of behaviour we view as dangerous, predatory, or aggressive is not that big of a deal to the creature in question. A gator nipping at a pal swimming by out of reflex causes no harm, it is seen as socially acceptible, and so the reflex/instinct to snap has not needed to become any more detailed than "feel movement, I bite". It's the fact that we are human that makes the relationship more volitile. Because if I were to get nipped, no matter how casually, I could loose a finger. You can kinda compare it to how you sometimes can trigger a cat into clawing you by moving you hands in certain ways. The cat reacts because we trigger their hunting instincts, and while for another cat with thick fur and the immunsystem of a boss it really does not matter if your pal swatts at you, we all know how painful it is to humans...

Lol.

Or because they know the consequences of doing so.

cats would eat your body if you died at home unnoticed and the food rans out.

@@tommyfanzfloppydisk Little bastards bite you for petting too long.

What kind of cats do you have 😅. Cats actually have the capacity to love, unlike Casper here Right as I'm typing this my cat decided to attack my foot 😅

Thank you...they are animals. They will do what comes natural if needed

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I guess I should add that I don't swim with gators the same way you do! I would go swimming in public areas designated for swimming and I frequently noticed alligators nearby in the water. I never purposely got that close to them out in the wild! If I saw one and they didn't leave, I would slowly make my way out of the water.

A fed animal is a happy animal!😆

Thanks!

Seems like you actually didn't listen to what he said😅

Delusional

XD

Hope that was sarcasm 😅

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Exactly. And he has to keep telling people to keep animals and children away from the water’s edge. Have humans lost all common sense?