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Louisiana family uses a giant alligator to reveal their baby's gender and it does not go well

No humans or gators were harmed.
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Petrana Radulovic
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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.

Never fear, though, because the Kleibert family has been gator wrangling for 57 years, according to their alligator farm website.

Thankfully no people -- or gators -- were harmed in this gender reveal.

Topics Animals

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Petrana Radulovic

Petrana Radulovic was a web culture fellow here at Mashable. She enjoys exploring the growing intersection of story-telling and digital spaces, hanging out in book shops and art museums, and the tasteful meme. Follow her on Twitter at @pet_rana for #relatable content.


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