Watch a doting alligator mother tenderly tending her nest of emerging babies. In a time-lapse, we see her spend hours retrieving each newborn one by one, placing them in a shallow pool of water.

Predators, usually raccoons, cause the destruction of around 1/3 of alligator nests. Raccoons not only eat the eggs, but they also eat baby alligators if the mother gator leaves the nest unattended.