Alligator mississippiensis Canvas Print

© Christine Till
An estimated 5 million American alligators are spread out across the southeastern United States. They occur in southern Texas, parts of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, but the majority of American alligators inhabit Florida and Louisiana. Roughly 1.25 million alligators live in the state of Florida.

Alligators and their relatives are the last of the living reptiles that were closely related to dinosaurs, and their closest modern kin are birds. These living fossils, that can be traced back 230 million years, live in swampy areas, slow-moving rivers and streams, bogs, lakes, ponds, creeks, canals and bayous, marshes and wetlands. They are opportunistic feeders; adults eat fish, turtles, wading birds, snakes, frogs, small mammals and even smaller alligators they find near the shoreline of their habitat. They hunt for prey underwater and often swallow their meal whole. Alligators are ectothermic animals that cannot regulate their own body temper...

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