{"id":43991,"date":"2025-01-28T16:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/alligator-named-darth-gator-is-trained-to-answer-to-the-star-wars-theme-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:52:40","slug":"alligator-named-darth-gator-is-trained-to-answer-to-the-star-wars-theme-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/alligator-named-darth-gator-is-trained-to-answer-to-the-star-wars-theme-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator named Darth Gator is trained to answer to the Star Wars theme &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alligator named Darth Gator is trained to answer to the Star Wars theme Twitter: Everglades \/ Lucasfilm Ltd.An alligator named after a famous Star Wars villain has been revealed to hilariously answer the call of his very own theme song. It may come as a surprise to some that alligators can be trained \u2014 well, to a degree. Despite their hostile appearances and a set of very sharp teeth, it turns out these reptiles aren\u2019t opposed to learning new tricks. And one in particular has Twitter falling in love with his impressive tricks. Star Wars fans better pay attention and prepare to meet a new mighty foe: Darth Gator. Posted by \u2018Everglades\u2019 on Twitter, the video shows Paul Bedard \u2014 an actor and star of the TV show Gator Boys. Bedard is also a trapper known for saving gators from harvest. Approaching a pool of alligators in the video, Bedard said, \u201cGoing to see if Darth can hear from this far away.\u201d He then played The Imperial March, the main theme song for Star Wars\u2019 famous lead villain. Sure enough, one of the gators began to \u201cmarch\u201d forward. Bedard revealed he could even get the gator to stop by simply hitting pause on the song. Darth Gator was rewarded for his good behavior, given a meaty snack and of course, compliments by both Bedard and those watching online. Twitter users hailed the gator, with one writing, \u201cImagine being an alligator and having your own theme song. The other gators must think he\u2019s so badass!\u201d Another said, \u201cThe fact that he was perfect on the beat with his Vader walk,\u201d with a third person sharing a similar sentiment; \u201cThe slappy slap of his feet.\u201d Be sure to check out all the latest entertainment news on our page here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alligator named Darth Gator is trained to answer to the Star Wars theme Twitter: Everglades \/ Lucasfilm Ltd.An alligator named after a famous Star Wars villain has been revealed to hilariously answer the call of his very own theme song. It may come as a surprise to some that alligators can be trained \u2014 well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}