I doubt it was harmed for the purposes of the film, but there's a real dead and dismembered alligator in it. Children poke at it until someone rolls it into the water.
They show an alligator between min 6-9, not the death. But the body is the focus of the shot continuously until it’s put back in the water - scene is over at 9 min in (watching in HBO)
The already dead alligator is A REAL ALLIGATOR. Seriously upsetting that they chose to use a real animal. No where says if animals were harmed in the making of this film…