Can gators & crocs live together?

No food, but ur food shaped😅

Can they mate and produce mixed offspring?

I dont believe so?

A keeper's personal preference actually matters way more than science in cases like this.
The keeper knows their animal, and vice versa.
If the keepers not comfortable with something, most likely, the animal isn't either.

You can tell they always use the same signal to let the gaters know there is no food.
A touch to the chin.

Both by watching many videos you can see that.
Also, from the gators's reaction, you can tell they understand, as they always relax, or get demanding, not just curious, when touched by the chin.

Can they co-habitate?
Yes
Should they?
The safe bet is "no"

In the wild they co exists

Hm, but that also means that gator on crock is more furry than any human furry fetish (65 mil ago was dino asteroid) and they still try.

Haha I love how Big Mac is just waiting patiently for you to toss some food into his mouth.

33 seconds in and I already feel like I know what you’re going to say about why you’ll keep them separate. Because they have different aggression levels and if you are in the midst of a mix of chill alligators and aggressive crocs it might make you trip over your own reaction timing with either one. Now I’m going to watch and see if you said something similar 😂

:) @ the end where it looks like Bella (sneaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaky Bella :P) and Big Mac are just enjoying storytime

🤓just to be nitpicky, Marsupials & Placentals split apart around 125-160 million years ago, while crododiles & alligators split apart around 80 million years ago. A better comparision would be saying we’re more more closely related to a shrew or rabbit than gators are to crocs.

Major classes of both mammals & the crodolymorp family both diverged during the cretaceous well before the asteroid.

6:05 Its funny that this video was just before that video of them fighting on a sidewalk lol

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell someone no they probably don't

"Alligators and crocodile do not kill each other for looking different like humans do". #Bars

I can say just from so many years of dealing with Animals that both of those gators in this video were intrigued by the dialogue and the calmness and potential inclusion into the mix. To me it screams of pack mentality. I so love this. Thank you and Gabbie and Team for what you all do.

What is your take on that guy who had an alligator as an emotional support animal. He would allow everyone to pet him. I believe that animal was Alligator napped and stolen. That alligator didn't even react hostility when touched around his eyes and head.

Growing up in SWFL. I ran into both but they were in such different ares. Sanibel is one of the few places

Gators: The one design plan where evolution said, "Yup, good enough."

Nobody at all:

Big Mac: Feed me Seymour. Or become feed.

haha they look like they listen to you as saying a tale :)))

>humans kill each other for looking different
That’s pretty atypical, but like crocodilians, they do generally self-segregate unless prevented from doing so, and probably for the same reasons.

Define 'murican? Pretty "Young" vs crocs...

Eh i'm young earth, but the rest of your knowledge is legit.

Chris and Gabby - could listen to you all day. Chris is so knowledgeable and has opened a lot of eyes to how fascinating these creatures are.

Do nile croc and American croc get along

Can or do croc and alligators mate?

I would not put them together either. They should be separated

Ok story time 😂

Chris : this is a talking video, i don't have any food for you.
Big Mac : how about your arm?

Can a croc and gator mate?

We have both gators and American Crocs down in Southwest and South Florida. They live near each other and cross paths...In fact, the American Croc, based on my decades of Florida living, is more skittish of humans than the American Alligator. Unlike the Nile Croc or a Saltwater Croc. And the American Croc has the ability to swim in saltwater for periods of time. They go from parts of the Gulf from point A to point B. The comparison of Gators to Nile Crocs I have always liked is a Pit Bull to a Doberman. Dobes are faster and more explosive dogs, but Pit Bulls are born fighters. If they are nearly the same size the advantage goes to the Pit Bull in a fight. However, Dobermans are often twice the height and weight.

they cohabitate in nature, but the crocs will be behaviorally dominant..... in the wild in Florida, the crocs are more saltwater and brackish, and the gators freshwater and brackish, so they dont overlap too much.... but it seems the crocs in Florida are starting to spread out a bit so while all the above still applies, the fact that the crocs numbers are increasing...

If there were big extinction events, why would all of them living in close quarters increase survival? Most would starve. Evolution is largely a lie and a weak theory overall

Of course they can ...only humans can't...they cost even live with their own family happily

Oh my gosh, I just finished watching today's video (Nov 25) and I was thinking can gators and crocs be in the same enclosure. I didn't even say my question out loud, I clicked on the YT icon to bring up another homepage and here is a video with my question. Good grief, can YouTube now read minds lol????

Fun fact: Florida is literally THE ONLY PLACE ON EARTH where you will see both Gators and Crocs living in the same eco-system.

Humans do not simply kill eachother for looking differently. It's never as shallow as that. There are always deeper, more nuanced reasons. Not that it makes it right. But that was a naive statement.

such a privilege to watch these creatures of god

he wants a taste of that bicep

2 kids listening to their dad 😂

Damnit I thought crocodiles walk tall, but then this alligator in this video walked tall.

Am I the only one sitting here watching both animals very surreptitiously sneaking closer and closer to Chris and thinking I can't stop watching 'cause there's an attack going to happen in just about any second?

You have things wrong here.
"240mya is when crocodilians first emerged in the fossil record"
- incorrect, by a long way. Crocodilians evolved about 95mya, that being a reference to possibly the earliest known members of the group. 240mya is approximately the beginning of the Crocodylomorphs, a clade containing crocodilians, but with taxa belonging to clades long before the first of them.
- since the earliest members of the entire group are within 100my, the divergence of alligators and crocs is clearly not over 100my. It was however relatively early; around the 85my mark or so.

- no, we are not closer to an opossum than alligators and crocs are to each other, by some margin. As stated above, alligators and crocs diverged about 85mya, whereas marsupials (opossum) and placentals (us) diverged a bit under double that ago. Note that divergence time since the common ancestor is the proxy method of approximating relatedness between taxa.

Can they cross breed?

4:37 somehow were supposed to believe that works with humans though hahah

Watch what you say and turn it off. Did it pulled up a little bit. How he cant trust some humans but can trust an alligator or crocodile.