They said it couldn't be done. But National Geographic Traveler's Andrew Evans seems to have invented the Alligator Chaser.
As a bonus: Check out this 2007 research paper, published in The Journal of Experimental Biology. It marks the first time that anyone sat down and figured out the physical mechanics of the alligator "death roll"—the way alligators take down and dismember large prey. To figure it out, researchers filmed juvenile alligators (not unlike the adorable ones in the video above), tracked the alligators' movements and spin performance, and used the data to create a computer model of the physics happening at the alligators' jaws mid-spin.
Spinning is a mechanism that can tear apart large prey by subjecting the tissue to torsional stresses. Animals and their tissues are weak in torsion … Inertia of the prey is required for the maneuver to be effective. Spinning does not work with small prey animals, because as the crocodile spins, the prey will also rotate.
Via Marilyn Terrell
