It's a bird, a blinkin bird. Swallowing a "large juvenile" alligator whole. A blinkin alligator!

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A Florida lady named Shellie Gilliam caught the sweet video of the freaky dino bird gulping down the gator.

LOOK at these crazy pics she snapped of the encounter:

Gators are usually the ones that get to enjoy going viral on the internet for killing and swallowing other animals in horrendous fashion.

Nature, man.