A Clip Here, a Snip There: World Spay Day Is February 24.Celebrating the 8th Annual Florida Week for the Animals.Tree Huggers Unite: May 16 Is National LOVE A Tree Day.Celebrating the 9th Annual Florida Week for the Animals.Alligator courtship is complex - vocalizations, head-slapping on the water’s surface, body posturing, snout and back rubbing, bubble blowing, and pheromone (scent) signals all play into the process. On our hikes, we’re always aware of the season. While (like all wildlife) gators don’t want to bother humans, the mating season isn’t the time to push your luck - aggression is at a higher level, and they may become more territorial (the older ones, at least). Interestingly, recent studies have shown that up to 70 percent of alligator females remained with their partner - often for many years.īreeding begins in the spring (mid-April through May, specifically), and you can hear their loud bellows throughout the swamps - calls used to attract mates and warn off other males. In the first place, WHY? Secondly, bullies much, picking on the babies?
BEAUTIFUL FEMALE ALLIGATOR WRESTLER TV
And it’s pitiful to see the yahoos on reality TV wrestling (rastling?) the smaller juveniles. We’ve seen some LARGE GATORS out in the ‘Glades…. Growth slows after this point, but some of the oldest males may grow upwards of 16 feet, reaching 1,200 pounds.
![beautiful female alligator wrestler beautiful female alligator wrestler](https://www.unp.me/images/cache/2010/03/Alligator_Wrestling_02-1.jpg)
Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife RefugeĪlligators reach breeding maturity at 6-10 years of age, when they’re approximately 6-7 feet long.
![beautiful female alligator wrestler beautiful female alligator wrestler](http://www.tech-fall.com/2010INT/images/10OPWTTSATWFF4476.jpg)
![beautiful female alligator wrestler beautiful female alligator wrestler](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/00/c2/88/00c288f749109b7384a7c99686f26dc5--seminole-indians-post-card.jpg)
Nearly ExtinctĪlligator on the Path (Just Fed), Arthur R. Occasionally they keep their mouths open, akin to a dog panting - it’s a cooling mechanism. As with other cold-blooded reptiles, it’s common to see them basking in the sun, thus regulating their body temperatures. They’re long-lived animals, living more than 50 years in the wild. We’ve actually seen a growing number of crocodiles in our trips to the Everglades.Īlligators live in freshwater environments, including ponds, marshes, wetlands, rivers, and swamps, as well as brackish environments. Interestingly, southern Florida is the only place where both alligators and crocodiles exist side-by-side. American alligators are found in the southeastern United States the majority inhabit Florida and Louisiana, with over a million alligators in each state. (7.Alligator and Duckweed in the Green Cay WetlandsĪ member of the crocodilian family, there are two alligator species living in the world today: the American alligator ( Alligator mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator ( Alligator sinensis). He was like the man in the song who had ten and one wives and not enough soup for his foo-foo. No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man. That showed that in time he would be able to control his women-folk. And so he was always happy when he heard him grumbling about women.
![beautiful female alligator wrestler beautiful female alligator wrestler](https://gabbynikolle.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/0/117099623/p91.png)
He wanted him to be a prosperous man, having enough in his barn to feed the ancestors with regular sacrifices. He wanted Nwoye to grow into a tough young man capable of ruling his father’s household when he was dead and gone to join the ancestors. Okonkwo was inwardly pleased at his son’s development, and he knew it was due to Ikemefuna. On receiving such a message through a younger brother or sister, Nwoye would feign annoyance and grumble aloud about women and their troubles. Nothing pleased Nwoye now more than to be sent for by his mother or another of his father’s wives to do one of those difficult and masculine tasks in the home, like splitting wood, or pounding food. He made him feel grown-up and they no longer spent the evenings in mother’s hut while she cooked, but now say with Okonkwo in his obi, or watched him as he tapped his palm tree for the evening wine. He was like an elder brother to Nwoye, and from the very first seemed to have kindled a new fire in the younger boy.