The American Alligator is usually a solitary animaland seldom group together. Baby gators feed on insects, shrimp, tadpoles, frogs and fish, while the adults will eat turtles, fish, raccoons, birds, and dead animals.
The American alligator is found in the warm wetlands and swamps of the Southeastern United States. Gators like to climb up on to the land and bask the sunbut as the day grows longer and warmer, they head back to the water.
The American Alligator is a very vocal kritter. It has a call similar to the roar of a lion. The breeding season of the American Alligator is in the months of April and May. A female gator will lay from 25 to 60 eggs in a mound of vegetation. They are incubated by the warmth of the sun, and hatch in about 9 weeks. The mother gators guard their nests and protect their young for several months after they hatch. A population of American Alligators can alter the landscape. They dig gator holes, which support a whole heap of other kritters and plants and they build up the land around the gator holes, giving a place for plants to grow.
Human folks are the alligators main threat to survival -- they are hunted for their skin, for leather goods, and for their meat. Before hunting was controlled in 1970, a ...
