A TikTok video has been making rounds on social media about a woman who calls a bunch of alligators ‘big’ and how they react. The video snippet has garnered over 2.9 million views and over 638,000 likes since it was released.
In the video, a bunch of alligators can be seen making hissing noises in the water below. The woman while talking to her family said, “Oh wow, He’s big too”. Much to our surprise, all the alligators then gazed up in the same direction at the same time, as if reacting to the woman’s remark.
It was so surprising for the woman as well as the netizens that the video went quite viral.
But according to John Brueggen, director of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida who happens to work with the park’s 24 crocodilians said
“Alligators have been found to respond to human speech”
He further elaborated that;
“Every day, we witness alligators respond to our voice signals. They are clever creatures that are quite simple to educate.”
As per the statement of Lindsey Lawson, who oversees a reptile breeding enterprise across the United States, told Newsweek that these alligators are clearly accustomed to being fed by people.
“Though the bigger alligator appears to be gazing straight at the lady filming after she made a statement, an alligator’s eyes are on the sides of its head, giving them a broad visual range and great peripheral vision. While facing her directly, he has a great perspective of what’s going on off to the left “She stated.
Usually, alligators are found throughout the United States. They are found across the southeast and as far north as North Carolina. They are very common in Florida and Louisiana.
