Colorado man touches inside of alligator’s mouth in slow motion video

MOSCA, Colo., Dec. 17 (UPI) — A daring employee at the Colorado Gator Farm strapped a GoPro camera to his arm and took slow motion video of his hand’s brief time an alligator’s mouth.

The video, shot by a GoPro mounted to the man’s arm, shows him briefly touch the inside of a gator’s mouth before the reptile can snap his jaws shut at the Colorado Gator Farm in Mosca.

The filmer said the alligator in the video is named “Elvis.”

“Elvis is almost 12ft long and the biggest and heaviest alligator at Colorado Gator Farm in Mosca Colorado,” he wrote online. “I got a new forearm mount for my GoPro and wanted to show people what it looks like to touch an alligator’s tongue.”