Alligators - Blog Posts
Dangerous show 🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
44% of crocodilians are threatened according to the IUCN. The Chinese alligator, Orinoco crocodile, Phillippines crocodile, Cuban crocodile, Siamese crocodile and Gharial are all considered critically endangered. A conservation success story, the American alligator, once facing extinction, is now considered "low risk", although the American crocodile is "vulnerable".
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Saw this handsome friend crossing the path I was walking, so I politely stood back to let him cross. Then he decides to just plop down right there for his sunbathing session
I can’t even be annoyed I love gators so much just look at his charming smirk
This Monday, the SNC was able to unclog our gator pond thanks to help from our resident Reptile Expert Will Nace and City of Coral Springs’ Parks and Rec Department. This joint effort was all for the good of Wally, our lovely gator.
ah, these are quite the specimens! I wonder what sanctuary they're located at.
A Melanistic & Albino Alligator
Photographer: snakebytestv
Imagine skating around on a frozen lake and just coming across pairs of jaws, halfhazardly spread around the lake, jutting out of the ice. Would you touch them?
I have been using alligators as the base for dragons in a book I am writing. Please make me regret my decision and tell me some cursed facts about them!
contrary to popular belief, american alligators can survive the occasional deep freeze just fine!
they do so by entering a torpor state that’s basically a short-term hibernation, but first they make a big ol’ hole in the ice and stick their face out of it so they can breathe until the thaw comes.
depending on how long the freeze lasts, this may mean that the hole literally freezes shut around their faces, and abruptly the swamp by your house is now a skating rink with built-in pit trap hazards.
don’t worry about them though, they’re fine! as long as they have access to open air, they’ll wake up when the temperature rises again and go back to lurking around pretending to be logs, though they may bonk around disorientedly for a few days afterwards.
“the shit was THAT about??? humans better stop fucking with the climate, I swear.”
overall, the alligators probably weathered the Great Blizzard of ‘21 better than the humans did.
the differences between crocodiles and alligators in case u were not aware
Young American Alligators Can Regrow Their Tails, Study Shows
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/young-american-alligators-can-regrow-their-tails-09084.html