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According to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, "Louisiana’s wild alligator population has increased from less than 100,000 to more than 2 million in the past 50 years.
The eastern coral snake, Texas coral snake, eastern copperhead, cottonmouth, western pygmy rattlesnake, and the eastern diamondback rattlesnake and canebrake rattlesnake can all be found in Louisiana. The largest reported American alligator was a male killed in 1890 on Marsh Island in Louisiana, and reportedly measured at 19 feet (5.8 meters). [17]
The largest alligator gar ever caught and officially recorded was 8 ft 5 in (2.6 m) long, weighed 327 lb (148 kg), and was 47 in (120 cm) around the girth. [28] Even the smaller species, such as Lepisosteus oculatus , are large, commonly reaching lengths of over 60 cm (2.0 ft), and sometimes much longer.
An average adult American alligator's weight and length is 360 kg (790 lb) and 4 m (13 ft), but they sometimes grow to 4.4 m (14 ft) long and weigh over 450 kg (990 lb). [11] The largest ever recorded, found in Louisiana, measured 5.84 m (19.2 ft). [12] The Chinese alligator is smaller, rarely exceeding 2.1 m (7 ft) in length.
Authorities captured a 504-pound alligator suspected of attacking and killing a 71-year-old man in Louisiana during Hurricane Ida.. The 12-foot reptile was found in the Avery Estates area near ...
The Mississippi River is home to the alligator, one of the most fierce predators in North America. These big reptiles grow big in this habitat. Find out how big they can get by watching this video ...
Jacob and Chase look for a gator they call the "Son of Treebreaker", after another tree-breaking gator was spotted in the same area as a similar gator they caught last season, but it seems that the gator has eluded all of their attempts to catch him. R. J. and Jay Paul go to a "hive", an area of floating marsh, as a way to up their gator count ...
The Florida state record for the longest alligator is 14 feet 3-1/2 inches, while the record for weight is 1,043 pounds. At 13-15 feet long, The Big Humpback is an unusually large reptile, which ...