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• Veteran alligator wrestler James Peacock, right, watches as his student, Scott Cohen, works with an alligator at the Native Village Wildlife Park in Hollywood, Fla.
• Scott Cohen, who started as a volunteer at the Native Village and is now in training to become an alligator wrestler, pulls a gator from the holding pond at the park in Hollywood, Fla.
• A large alligator crawls out of the holding pond at the Everglades Alligator Farm in Homestead, Fla.
• Maggie Lamb, a tourist from San Francisco, holds a baby alligator with its mouth taped shut after watching an alligator wrestling show in Homestead, Fla.
• Jeremy Possman closes his alligator show in Homestead, Fla. with one of the favorite stunts, tucking the gator's snout under his chin.
• Bob Freer works his way out of the alligator feeding area of the Homestead, Fla., Alligator Farm.