Video: Australian zoo removes hostile gator from lagoon

SOMERSBY, Australia — A unit astatine an Australian zoo utilized unthinkable teamwork to region an alligator from a lagoon aft it reportedly showed hostility toward different gators and its keepers.

The Australian Reptile Park successful Somersby said the hostile alligator, named Kanye, was charging keepers and displaying assertive behaviour toward the different 54 gators during this mating season.”

Australian Reptile Park Director Tim Faulkner told Storyful that the astir 4 meter-long alligator came retired of hibernation explosive, truthful it was a information to himself, the different alligators, and the staff.

So, the New South Wales zoo made the determination to isolate Kanye successful a “naughty corner” for a portion until helium calms down.

To get Kanye out, employees archetypal lassoed his rima and worked unneurotic to propulsion the alligator retired of the water. Once the gator was out, workers jumped connected apical of him and began taping his rima shut.

Carefully, the unit past moved Kanye to a board, which they utilized to transportation the alligator retired of the country and into different habitat.

“There’s thing casual astir moving a 350-kilo American alligator. That was aggravated astatine times. But present that we got Kanye retired the back, he’ll walk a mates months retired here. Once helium calms down a small bit, we’ll reintroduce him to the lagoon with the remainder of his alligator mates. But jeez, that was tough,” said Dan Rumsey, a zookeeper astatine the facility.