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The highly adaptable American alligator is found in swamps, rivers and lakes with clear or turbid water. Crocodiles live in marshes, lakes and rivers, and can live in saline environments including estuaries and mangrove swamps. [115] American and saltwater crocodiles swim out to sea.
Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large, semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.The term “crocodile” is sometimes used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (both members of the family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (both ...
What you mainly see are alligators. But crocodiles live here too. Florida is known for its giant reptiles. What you mainly see are alligators. But crocodiles live here too.
The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics.It is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the Americas, with populations present from South Florida, the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, [4] and the coasts of Mexico to as far south as Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Alligators and crocodiles differ in some key ways, from their scales to teeth to snout shape and beyond. Watch the latest video from A-Z-Animals to discover fascinating facts about these two ...
Alligators commonly live up to 50 years, but there have been examples of alligators living over 70. [14] One of the oldest recorded alligator lives was that of Saturn , an American alligator who was hatched in 1936 in Mississippi and spent nearly a decade in Germany before spending the majority of his life at the Moscow Zoo , where he died at ...
From the editor: I know the alligators were here before we were, so we have no choice but to live with them.
Whenever an American alligator's mouth is closed, the fourth tooth is no longer visible. It is enclosed in a pocket in the upper jaw. Alligators also frequently lose and replace their teeth, about once every year. [60] As alligators live a lengthy life, they can go through over 2,000 teeth in their lifetimes. [61]