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Here’s a cool way to make a gender reveal party better (or worse, depending): add an alligator to the mix.

That’s right — this Louisiana family decided to take gender reveal parties to the next level and included a large gator as part of the ritual. Soon-to-be dad and alligator wrangler, Mike Kleibert coaxes the beast around, before dropping a watermelon in its mouth.

The gator snaps its jaws, revealing blue goo. Congrats! Thanks to the colors coded by our rigid dichotomous gender binary, looks like the kid’s gonna be a boy!

After chomping a bit on the remnants of melon, the gator swerves dangerously towards the family and Kleibert has to wrestle the creature to the ground. Read more…

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Damn, alligators are tough.

Last week, the Shallotte River Swamp Park posted videos on Facebook of its gators poking their nostrils through the ice to survive unusually cold temperatures, a result of the “bomb cyclone” that hit the eastern United States.

On Tuesday, the tactic paid off — the ice melted a bit in the park’s alligator sanctuary, and the creatures were alive and well.

The park is located in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina — a state that, like much of the East Coast, experienced its coldest first week of January on record since 1895, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read more…

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