• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    Every time I picture an alligator biting me I’m like I bet I could wiggle out or like somehow overcome it, because their jaws look so long and flat - like how much strength could they have? Certainly not more than a lion.

    Well.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      The closing force is significantly higher than its opening force IIRC. If you can close its mouth without getting bitten it’s screwed.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah, but time marches on and everything. Young people won’t know him. Someone said they didn’t know who a guy in a picture was the other week. It was Tony Bourdain and I felt old.