It looks "staged" to me. The deer's head is "bent" in the wrong direction. If it was a fresh kill, the head would be bent down/back towards the crocagator as it swims. It looks like it was a deer that was killed, bent/twisted to fit in the bed of a pickup truck, left sitting for a while to get stiff, then tossed in the water.
Well, the critter (I don't think it's a deer, is it?) probably is stiff from rigormortis, as it obviously has been dead awhile--note no blood. But does that mean it's staged? I don't think so. Is that critter an alligator or a croc? I don't know them well enough to be able to tell from this angle, but I thought it was a croc, thus not a deer.
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