Wild Behavior

How to train your alligator - ALLIGATORS with Stephan Reber

Megan Lambert & Rachel Dale Season 1 Episode 9

Professional alligator wrangler and IG Nobel prize winning scientist Stephan Reber joins us to tell us all about alligators. What’s the difference between alligators and crocodiles? How (and why?) is helium used in alligator research? What can alligators tell us about dinosaurs? 

Follow Stephan on Bluesky: @stephanreber.bsky.social‬

More on Stephan's work:

https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/stephan-reber 

Link to Gharial father transporting babies: 

https://www.livescience.com/gharial-crocodile-papa-photo.html 

More on the IG Nobel award:

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-researcher-receives-ig-nobel-prize-alligator-helium-study