Some people called the alligator alligators alligator, fish it as a kind of aquatic animals. In fact, there is no alligators gills, not aquatic animals, but the alligator back in the water, forming a number of features to adapt to life in water, with only amphibious ability. This, Alligator on the expansion of areas of life, making them easy to become a winner in the struggle for survival.
Alligators in the lakes and pond burrowing and habitat, ferocious nature, a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and crustaceans. June mate, lay eggs from July to August, can lay 10-20 pieces of litter. Eggs in the grass, weeds on the cover, the mother alligator will guard the side, by the natural temperature of incubation, the incubation period is about 60 days. With hibernation habits of drilling in October each year in hibernation cave to come out in April and May next year
activities. Alligator hi static, often hiding in caves during the day, going out at night to feed. But it also came out during the day activities, in particular, like in a cave near the shore, the beach sun. It is often closed his eyes, climb V does not move, in a semi-sleep state, to give people the illusion of slow action, but, when it discovered the event of predators or food, they will immediately force the thick tail swinging around, rapidly sink to the bottom to escape predators or chase food. It's favorite food is snail, mussel, fish, shrimp, birds, rabbits, snakes and other animals. The alligator eat a lot, can absorb large quantities of nutrients stored in the body, so it will have a strong ability of anti-hunger, you can spend a long hibernation.
Alligator encounter predators on land or hunting food, to vertical jump arrest, capture less than vertical, it was a huge tail sweep can also be violent. Unfortunately, the alligator, although there seems a long sharp sharp teeth, teeth may have a slot, such teeth can not bite and chew food, the food can only be the same as the pliers 'grip' and then bolted to swallow bite. So when the alligator catch large terrestrial animals, they could not bite, but to drag them into the water and drowned; the contrary, when the alligator catch larger aquatic animals when they are thrown on the ground again, so that prey died due to lack of oxygen. Can not swallow large pieces of food in the face of time, often with alligator mouth "clip" the food in the rocks or tree trunks beat violently, until it broke and then threw a soft mouth or swallow, such as not enough, it is simply to prey lost to the side, any of its natural decay, and other bad enough to be swallowed, and then swallow. Alligator has a special stomach. Only the stomach acid is not only more but also high acidity, so it's particularly good digestive function.
Alligator 19th century, alligator spotted in the Yangtze River, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi and Jiangsu Province, like the river gully in the hills and shallow lakes on the river built dig hole, but the reptile is inseparable from the water. It is slow clumsiness on land, once in water, is doing well. And this amphibious characteristics, resulting in the tragic fate of the alligators. Alligator Point building was reclaimed into the shallows and more farmland, hills and extensive damage to vegetation and hills of the greatly reduced water storage capacity, frequent drought and waterlogging, the alligator had to leave their caves, looking for suitable habitat. This migration process but also for natural and man-killing death created an opportunity. Alligator hunting for many years been a large number of cave was vandalism, stir the egg is bad or Taozou. The chemical fertilizer and pesticide use is also greatly reduced the alligator's main food - the number of aquatic animals. Alligator reduced to the current distribution Jiangxi, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces border the narrow region.
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