00:00we are out at the alligator lagoon and we're about to do something really exciting we're
00:04going to go and collect some alligator eggs so i've got the whole team here because it's
00:07a really dangerous job we're going to get out there the mum's going to be fired up she's going
00:10to want to guard that nest we'll have to catch her restrain her get in open the nest up collect
00:14the eggs and nowadays we've got 53 alligators out here so it's wild and some really big males and
00:19some of them over four meters all right so they're the biggest alligators in the country
00:23and they're also looking very hungry and we don't want to end up on the menu all right so we need
00:28to be super safe let's go what we need to do first is we'll just clear gators all right so i've just
00:34got the top door up here the female's right here below me i think this is actually the first year
00:40she's laid her eggs i'm not expecting a massive clutch of eggs but we'll see i'm going to rope
00:44her with gifo pull her up here and then dylan and harry are going to jump on her if you're going to
00:49take this rope off me once i've got her all right so you got that gif just get away from the water
00:59just watch these gators coming in over here three two one nice job it is an absolute textbook alligator
01:08nest i'm just going to dig in here oh first one right here look at that in the first 24 hours right
01:15the embryo is going to attach itself to the side of the egg and a white band will form it's already
01:21just starting to form just here then that's an indication to us that it's fertile what will then
01:25happen is the whole egg will go like a pearl white and over the next about 73 74 days it'll incubate and
01:31the temperature will actually control whether it's going to be a male or a female so we're going to
01:35artificially incubate the reason why we do this there's too much temperature fluctuation here on the
01:39coast from hot and cold so the eggs just wouldn't survive here and if they did and they got loose in here
01:45a the other alligators might eat them and b they could possibly get out of our fence lines and we'd
01:50end up with a population of alligators on the central coast so that wouldn't be great so um here's
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