“I didn’t want to be outside of the enclosure if he was going to be rolling because that would guarantee that I would get my arm ripped off,” she said. That’s when the alligator clamps onto its food and rolls to rip off chunks small enough to swallow. “But then he really bit down, and that’s when I realized, ‘Oh, this is going to be serious.’”īull has replayed worst-case scenarios over and over in her head before, and in this instance, her training kicked in and she knew what was coming: a death roll. “As I was pushing up, he was pushing down, and the best guess I have is that he slipped his head to the side and my hand was in the way,” she said. She opens the door and says, “Back!” - a command he knows and understands - but rather than moving back, he pushes toward her. Instead of remaining in the water, he was on the platform, waiting for her at the enclosure’s door.
“Darth Gator was being a little bit more pushy, which isn’t uncommon,” she said.
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