Alligator mississippiensis -The American Alligator belongs to the Kingdom Animalia and Phylum Chorodata.
-They inhabitat bays and estuaries; salt marshes; lagoons in coral reefs; Gulf Shores.
-They range in areas Coastal Southeastern North Carolina to the Florida Keys and west along the coastal plain to south Texas.
-They feed on almost any prey that comes within range. If they get the chance they eat a carcass of a dead animal.
- They usually eat at anytime as long as the temperature is above 70 degrees F.
-They can also run 30 miles-per-hour!
-The male and female mate.
-The demale allgiator can lay up to 20 to 50 eggs in a nest made of rotting vegetation and mud. Then she covers the eggs with the nest.
-She stays by the nest to protect the unborn alligators.
-After the eggs hatch, about 65 days later, the mother will carry the babies to the water.
- The babies will stay by their mother for three years. |
