Tuesday, March 6, 2012
info about alligators
Alligators are amazing animals, if you ever get to see one in real life, then you are lucky. You can easily recognize an alligator from a crocodile if they are side by side, the croc will have a longer, thiner snout, and the alligators snout should be thicker and shorter. You can also know because on an alligator, only their top teeth will be showing. A male alligator can be up to 15 feet long, and 1200 pounds. An alligators bite can cause more than 2000 pounds of pressure. The tail, which accounts for more than half of the body length, if mostly used to push the alligator around in the water, though, it can also be used for self defense if needed. Though alligators usually eat food that they can eat in one bite, like birds or moles, when they do eat something big, they do something called a death roll, which drowns the animal and pulls off chunks of meat. Then , if it still is hard to eat, they will let it rot, so it gets softer.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
winter alligators
Did you know that during winter alligators basically stop working? During winter most of the alligators body freeze all except the little part of their brain that keeps their heart beating, this helps store energy for when it gets warmer. This is called hibernation. A lot of other animals do this like bears, rabbits, and squirrels. The reason they all do this is because in the winter, the freezing temperatures result in the need for more food and air, which is hard to get because almost all of the food is either dead or hibernating as well.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
old alligators
Friday, August 28, 2009
alligator eggs
Friday, August 14, 2009
saltwaters
Thursday, August 13, 2009
albinos
gharailed
because they have longer snouts so they can reach things farther away. Just because they are more dangerous, does not mean that they are more vicious. An interesting fact about gharials is that they can blow air through the bubble at the end of their snouts. This produces a low sound similar to a trumpet. They use this sound to signal to their mates, kind of like what an emperor penguin does.
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