[Watch] Alligator Eats Drone Post Shared By Sundar Pichai

New Delhi: In a shift from his usual straightforward posts, Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday retweeted a video of an alligator smoking from the mouth after catching a drone out of the air.

The footage, reportedly filmed in Florida, shows the alligator snapping its jaws shut around the small drone. However, the device likely combusted moments afterwards, as the video shows smoke billowing out of the animal’s mouth.

In a caption accompanying the video, the drone operator confessed they were trying to get a close-up shot of the animal and thought that drone sensors would help keep it a safe distance from the alligator.

“We were trying to get a close up of the gator with its mouth open and thought the obstacle avoidance would make the drone fly away. [It] was only our second time using the spark,” wrote the drone operator.

The footage was shared on Twitter this morning by Chris Anderson, the founder and former CEO of 3DR, a California-based drone company. “Alligator snatches drone out of the air and it promptly catches fire in its mouth,” he wrote while sharing the clip. Sundar Pichai retweeted his post without any additional comments.

The video has outraged many Twitter users who called for stricter regulation of drones, especially around animals.