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American alligators are less vulnerable to cold than American crocodiles. Unlike an American crocodile, which would immediately succumb to the cold and drown in water at 45 °F (7 °C) or less, an American alligator can survive in such temperatures for some time without displaying any signs of discomfort. [85]
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.
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 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 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.
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.
On average, the temperature of incubation is 25–26 °C (77–79 °F), including the day and night. [36] This temperature controls whether a young alligator will be male or female (temperature-dependent sex determination), [32] a feature present in many other reptiles. A higher incubation temperature also increases the hatching rate. [36]
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.