Alligators living environment

Alligators live in freshwater, like habitat in lakes, swamps or hills of beach grass, basil mountain covered with damp areas. It has a superb ability to dig Punch, head, tail and sharp claws are its toe holes Punch tool. As the saying goes "Jiaotusanku" and alligator caves also more than three caves. It's often a few cave entrance, and some beaches on the shore reed, bamboo clusters of office, some in the pond bottom, with entrances on the ground, vent, but also to adapt to a variety of water level of the side of the hole. Winding caves, criss-cross, like an underground maze. Perhaps it is this underground maze to help them through the cold of the glacial maximum and the cold winter, but also help them escape predators and survive. To fish, frogs, snails and mussels, etc., as food. But sometimes attack poultry and crushed crops, plus it looks ugly, has long been considered to be harmful animals are killed, so scarce.

AlligatorUntil early June. Alligator mating in the water, fertilization. To early July or so, the female crocodile began weeds, litter and soil in a suitable place for building a circular nest eggs to use. July and August to lay eggs, litter can lay between 10 to 30. Eggs are white, slightly larger than the eggs. Eggs in the grass, weeds on the cover, the mother alligator will guard the side, this time is the hottest of the summer season, and soon, some nest material and the thick grass in the hot sunlight rot fermentation, and emit heat, crocodile eggs is to use this energy to heat and sunlight to hatch. In the incubation period, the mother often came to the nest next to the alligator guarding, incubation period is about 60 days, about two months time, the mother crocodile alligator in the nest to hear the calls of Aberdeen, will immediately clawed cover crocodile in Aberdeen Mulching above the body, helping Aberdeen alligator climbed out of the nest and lead them to the pool inside. Aberdeen crocodile surface with orange stripes, color is very bright, into a crocodile with the body color are quite different. Young crocodiles hatched in September. With hibernation habits. Alligator is a species unique to China, under difficult conditions in captivity breeding. In the kind of good environment and well-kept condition, Alligator in 1980 under China's annual output of the first baby crocodiles, a breeding success in captivity under the conditions precedent. Currently, the crocodile to live a quiet and comfortable in this environment, reproduce, their populations growing.