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    The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to colloquially as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile...
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    are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known...
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    pinyin: yángzǐ'è), China alligator, or historically the muddy dragon, is a crocodilian endemic to China. It and the American alligator (A. mississippiensis)...
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    their resemblance to the American alligator, particularly their broad snouts and long, sharp teeth. It is suggested that an alligator gar can grow up to 10 ft...
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  • Alligator is a 1980 American independent horror film directed by Lewis Teague and written by John Sayles. It stars Robert Forster, Robin Riker and Michael...
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    Alligator hunting is the capture and killing of gators. With the appropriate licenses and tags, the American alligator can legally be hunted in the Southeastern...
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    closely related to the American alligator than to either the Nile crocodile or the gharial. This is a stem-based definition for alligators, and is more inclusive...
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    the American alligator in Florida, and with the smaller spectacled caiman within Central America and South America. The IUCN lists the American crocodile...
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    Depicting African-American children as alligator bait was a common trope in American popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. The motif was present...
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    pronounced MOO-ya) (hatched 1937) is an American alligator living in the Belgrade Zoo and is the oldest known alligator in captivity. Having arrived at the...
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    sizes that reduce their vulnerability to predation. The native American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) is known to be both the prey, predator and...
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    Alligator wrestling is an attraction, that later evolved into a sport, that began as hunting expeditions by Native Americans. It has been described as...
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    Vliet, K. A. (1989). "Social displays of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)". American Zoologist. 29 (3): 1019–1031. doi:10.1093/icb/29...
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    Reggie is the name of an American alligator, believed to have been raised in illegal captivity, who became feral and was sighted for two extended periods...
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    A sewer alligator is an alligator that lives in sewers. These accounts are mostly fictional and are rare to encounter. Stories date back to the late 1920s...
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  • geologically older Alligator mefferdi and the modern American alligator, making it a transitional fossil. The remains of Alligator hailensis were found...
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    USS Alligator, the fourth United States Navy ship of that name, is the first known U.S. Navy submarine, and was active during the American Civil War (the...
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    was an American alligator residing in the Moscow Zoo. He was the subject of an urban myth that he was previously Adolf Hitler's "pet alligator". After...
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    The alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) is a large species of turtle in the family Chelydridae. The species is endemic to freshwater habitats...
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    crocodile and alligator skin, and other goods. Many species of both alligators and crocodiles are farmed internationally. In Louisiana alone, alligator farming...
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  • records of alligator attacks in 1948. CrocBITE Species: List of fatal bear attacks in North America List of fatal cougar attacks in North America List of...
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    the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators. Caimans inhabit Mexico and Central and South America from marshes and swamps to mangrove rivers...
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    Alligatorinae Genus AlligatorAlligator hailensis † Alligator mcgrewi † Alligator mefferdi Alligator mississippiensis, American alligatorAlligator olseni †...
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  • 36361. doi:10.1038/srep36361. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5098244. "American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) longevity, ageing, and life history". genomics...
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    surpassing the previous record of 13,172 N or 2,961 lbf made by an American alligator (Alligator mississippinesis)). Based on the regression of mean body mass...
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    Crocodile (category Reptiles of North America)
    include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family...
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  • Alligatoridae is the Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger) with the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) sometimes growing to similar lengths. Black...
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    Chance the Snapper is a four to five foot long American alligator that was found swimming in the Humboldt Park lagoon, in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening...
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    United States; in the latter, it is sometimes mislabeled as the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). Invasive populations have become established...
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    Albinism (redirect from White alligator)
    an albino American alligator named "Claude". The alligator is partially blind because of lack of pigment in its eyes. The albino alligator hatched from...
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