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The same fish in 60° F water will have a body temperature near 60° F. After a cool night, a grasshopper may be too stiff and cold to hop until the morning sun warms its body.
American alligators do not normally reach such extreme sizes. In mature males, most specimens grow up to about 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in) in length, and weigh up to 360 kg (790 lb), [7] while in females, the mature size is normally around 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in), with a body weight up to 91 kg (201 lb).
Temperature-sensing probes implanted in wild American alligators have found their core body temperatures can fall to around 5 °C (41 °F), but as long as they remain able to breathe, they show no ill effects when the weather warms. [109]
“Alligators tend to stop feeding when the temperature drops below 70 degrees and become dormant at around 55 degrees Fahrenheit,” as specified by the Cajun Encounters Tour Co.
Temperatures fell to 17 degrees in Ocean Isle Beach on the day the video was recorded, the park reported. The park’s alligators seemed to instinctively know when the water was about to freeze.
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 ...
Alligators stop eating when temperatures dip below about 70 degrees, entering a dormant state below 55 degrees, as noted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός (ektós) "outside" and θερμός (thermós) "heat"), more commonly referred to as a "cold-blooded animal", [1] is an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat, such as blood, are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature. [2]