They have these famous tours in Costa Rica I have seen videos of over the years where a guy will get out and hand feed large crocodiles. To the untrained and unfamiliar person these regular feedings seem like they are all close calls with how close the crocodiles get to the feeder, but the tour guide is never really deeply in trouble, and usually has things under control.
That is until I seen this video that has been floating around recently, where the tour guide was holding a piece of meat out in front of the crocodile luring him backwards when then the soft land beneath his feet gives way, and he gets briefly stuck/slowed in the mud. It makes for a very close call, and I'm surprised as to how well this tour guide keeps his cool when things go wrong. Actually things may have turned out very differently if this tour guide didn't have this chunk of meat in his hand while this all happened, because the crocodile just kept his focus on the meat that he is so conditioned to try to grab. Basically if the crocodile wasn't so blinded by the meat he might have went for the feeder, or at least easily had the potential to. Here is a good picture below showing the close call! Also check out the full video below of the entire scene.
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