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Pond Creek NWR includes 30,500 acres (12,300 ha) on the north bank of the Little River. Breeding populations of the American alligator are found in Millood Lake and Pond Creek NWR and alligators are sometimes seen in the Little River National Wildlife Refuge. This lower section of the river is characterized by swamps, sloughs, oxbow lakes and a ...
People think alligators don’t see well because their eyes are on either side of their head. Nope, says Price. “They can see straight forward, thus giving them a wider view than humans,” he said.
Multiple instances of alligators killing unleashed pets in Hilton Head’s Sea Pines last month sparked a flurry of online posts claiming the reptiles are overpopulated in the Lowcountry ...
Alligator experts say the reason for the increase in attacks is simple. More people live close to alligator habitats. Once a dwindling species in South Carolina, alligators have rebounded thanks ...
Alligators are native only to the United States and China. [19] [20] American alligators are found in the southeast United States: all of Florida and Louisiana; the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; coastal South and North Carolina; East Texas, the southeast corner of Oklahoma, and the southern tip of Arkansas.
The Lowcountry (sometimes Low Country or just low country) is a geographic and cultural region along South Carolina's coast, including the Sea Islands. The region includes significant salt marshes and other coastal waterways, making it an important source of biodiversity in South Carolina.
An alligator stops for a rest on Feb. 28, 2021 on a golf course green in Indigo Run on Hilton Head Island.
Fossils identical to the existing American alligator are found throughout the Pleistocene, from 2.5 million to 11.7 thousand years ago. [17] In 2016, a Late Miocene fossil skull of an alligator, dating to approximately seven or eight million years ago, was discovered in Marion County, Florida. Unlike the other extinct alligator species of the ...