Are we sure they aren't just screaming in protest? "Turn that damn music down! It's making my eyes bleed!"

What about the dude with the bag of bloody chickens just to the left, outside the frame of the camera? How patriotic is he?

@2--That's exactly what's happening with this, sorta.

Anyone who knows a modicum of animal behavioral science knows this (and really my cred in this area is only a little more than simply being autistic and so a lot more empathic with so-called 'dumb' animals than you higher primates).

What's happening is the gators have long been fed right after enduring Lee Greenwood. Their primeval, marvelously simple, little suchid brains relatively quickly begin to associate Lee Greenwood with food, and once that connection is made it's delightfully easy to get the scaly little mesozoic monsters to do all sorts of fun tricks for you.

It's the same part of the brain that makes my cat attack my Vans whenever I take them off.

Works with just about any chordate.

Wow, that enclosure has absolutely no enrichment to speak of for those gators. I hope this is just a temporary holding area and they're usually somewhere else.
I don't think I've ever heard one make noise before, that's about what I expected.

Pure Pavlovian conditioning: They dangled red-blooded, American babies over the wall, played that fucked-up song..............