Alligator learns to swim with prosthetic tail

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Typically we humans find cats and slow lorises cute, alligators less so. There's probably a bunch of painful evolutionary lessons behind this response. But millennia of predator/prey set-tos aren't enough to stop us coming over a little misty-eyed at the sight of this young gator, learning to swim with a prosthetic tail. You keep trucking little feller.