A anurous gator has been attract some double - yield in southerly Louisiana this week . It may look a little unusual , but gators are incredibly rugged puppet with impressive healing ability , and experts consider there ’s good rationality to suggest this guy will be alright .

Ashlyn Bartholomew was driving her kids home from baseball game practice in Plaquemines Parish on Tuesday , May 20 , when she came across the brute slowly wandering across the main road . At first , she suspected it might be a big firedog , but a closer look divulge it was , in fact , an gator with a missing butt .

“ Y’all be thrifty . There ’s half an alligator walking on the route , ” Bartholomew wrote onFacebook .

“ Ai n’t no means ”

“ What the helly ? ”

“ There ’s your cutie patootie ”

Some were worried about the animate being ’s wellbeing , although thing might not be as bad as they first seemed .

grant to Robert Mendyk , a reptile expert at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans , the gator may have lost its tail due to a passing gravy boat propellor or , more likely , a scuffle with a bigger alligator . alligator can be territorial and fight over female . It ’s not strange for alligators to mislay their limb this way ; they have remarkable healing abilities and regularly survive such amputation , he noted , so it ’s not necessarily a last sentence for these hardy creatures .

“ The wounding fence itself off and cure . They have really phenomenal healing and regenerative ability , ” Mendyk toldlocal news show .

All fauna can , to some extent , repair wound through the regeneration of skin and muscular tissue . dozens of reptilian can regrow their tails , like anoles or gecko , although the young outgrowth normally is n’t as good as the first one . However , alligators surprised scientist in 2020 revealing they are thelargest bonk animal to regrow lose limb . Just because they can does n’t mean they always will though , and this wound come out to have mend into a nubble instead of regrowing a young tail .

Mendyk note that the injury may mean the alligator experiences difficulty when swimming , which will make hunt in the water very cunning . However , he ’s fairly confident that the injured creature has managed to adapt to these adverse setting .

It “ maybe has resorted to doing its hunting along the banks . One direction or another , it seems to be surviving , ” he say .