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🐊Good Ol' American Alligator

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Phylum: Reptiles

Class: Crocodilians

Order: Crocodilians

Family: Crocodiles

Species: Crocodylus acutus
Length: Up to 21 Feet

Reproduction: about 30 eggs.

Diet: fish, turtles, birds, and mammals

Home: southern Florida, the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America

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🇺🇸 Fun Facts

Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious. That's right my favorite critter explorers our very first creature is the one and only Alligator!

 

Asides from roaming around Florida like they own the place, there are actually quite a few interesting things about Alligators.

 

 

1) Well to start Alligators (like crocodiles) have been around Earth for millions of years, they basically modern-day dinosaurs. No, not your great-grandpa kind, more of the TRex eat your face off kind.

 

2) There are also only two types of Alligators out there the American alligator and the Chinese alligator. #tradewar anyone?

 

3) Alligators have a really strong bite but the muscles that open the jaw are weak. (They must've skipped jaw day because a human adult could hold the jaws of an alligator shut with their bare hands.

 

4) Alligator eggs become male or female depending on the temperature, male in warmer temperatures, and female in cooler temperatures. Hold up, wait a minute.... its a choppa.

 

Finally, I challenge you to spell out 'mississippiensis' because I can barely spell Mississippi without looking like a crawfish

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🐊American alligators are at home in both freshwater and saltwater. They are excellent swimmers, using their strong tail to move quickly through the water. They catch prey with their powerful jaws and eat insects, fish, frogs, turtles, birds, and mammals.

 

Attacks on humans are rare, but they do occur. Most alligators hunt at night. During the day, they float near the surface, often with their mouths open. When a crocodile closes its mouth, two large teeth remain visible. These two teeth protrude upward, one on either side of the lower jaw. Alligators do not have teeth that protrude when the mouth is closed.

 

On land, alligators appear clumsy. Usually, they move slowly. But when they feel threatened or when they are hunting, they can move very fast. They cannot move well from side to side, however. An animal being chased by an alligator can usually escape by quickly changing its direction. When alligators reach maturity, their only real enemies are people who hunt them for their leathery skin and for sport. These reptiles are close to extinction in some areas of the world.

 

After mating, the female alligator digs a hole in which to lay her eggs. She piles grass and other matter on top of the eggs. She guards the nest for about three months until the young alligator's hatch. Then she carries the young down to the water.

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