At times nature can be cruel, but there is also a raw beauty, and even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty.

The alligator, one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the "apex predator", can still fall victim to implemented ' team work ' strategy, made possible due to the tight knit social structure and "survival of the pack mentality" bred into the canines.

See the remarkable photograph below courtesy of Nature Magazine. Note that the Alpha dog has a muzzle hold on the gator preventing it from breathing, while another dog has a hold on the tail to keep it from thrashing. The third dog attacks the soft underbelly of the gator.

Not for the squeamish!

ken

Thanks Ken...as a biologist I have to agree. Nature, red in tooth and claw, is both inspiring and terrifying.

As the forum killer, I thought I'd stir up some trouble with the tree hugegrs -:)

#oops Gary spelling in there Ken..

tree hugegrs :eek:

The third dog attacks the soft underbelly of the gator.



Pfft. Obviously the third dog is rubbing the gator's belly to make it sleepy. Everyone knows you put alligators to sleep by rubbing their bellies. :p

Pfft. Obviously the third dog is rubbing the gator's belly to make it sleepy. Everyone knows you put alligators to sleep by rubbing their bellies. :p

At any rate, I'm sure this kind of activity is frowned on, taxed, or completely outlawed in the UK - ;)

At any rate, I'm sure this kind of activity is frowned on, taxed, or completely outlawed in the UK - ;)

Not a lot of point since we ain't got no gators.
You're just a stirrer Kenny. :p:eek::D

Brian

Not a lot of point since we ain't got no gators.
You're just a stirrer Kenny. :p:eek::D

Brian


And it only works on the old man anyway :D
(And sometimes heater boy...:))

('ain't got no' - Pretty good english :p)

At any rate, I'm sure this kind of activity is frowned on, taxed, or completely outlawed in the UK - ;)

Did you really think we had alligators here?

Col

Did you really think we had alligators here?

Col

>bite-my-lip<

Sorry - I just agreed in another thread to be nice. (This is going to be harder than I thought...:p)

:)
ken

And it only works on the old man anyway :D
(And sometimes heater boy...:))

('ain't got no' - Pretty good english :p)

The use of the double negative is an agreed form of emphasis in Scouseland. :D

Brian

>bite-my-lip<

Sorry - I just agreed in another thread to be nice. (This is going to be harder than I thought...:p)

:)
ken

Take a pill, have a drink and a fag, you'll be ok.

Col

Take a pill, have a drink and a fag, you'll be ok.

Col

No thanks. You have a fag, I'm not that kind of guy - ;)

Sleep well :)

Fuss with... I mean see you wed. :)

tree hugegrs :eek:

what's a hugegr?:confused::confused:
is it an American lumberjack, or something? :confused:

that is pretty funny, that poor alligator being attacked by those three vicious mongrels

No thanks. You have a fag, I'm not that kind of guy - ;)

Sleep well :)

Fuss with... I mean see you wed. :)

UK-- Fag == cigarette...
US Fag = well.. you know

The British and the Americans are two great peoples separated only by a common language.

G.B. Shaw

The British and the Americans are two great peoples separated only by a common language.

G.B. Shaw

As I discovered when I first hired a car over in the US, the insurance said I could only drive it on the pavement, sheese, you should have seen those pedestrians scatter! ;):D

Brian

As I discovered when I first hired a car over in the US, the insurance said I could only drive it on the pavement, sheese, you should have seen those pedestrians scatter! ;):D

Brian

That would have meant you'd have had to stay on the interstates in Alabama and Mississippi - :eek::D