By nature, alligators are shy and reclusive, and are typically wary of humans. |
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My guess is that alligators and water moccasins outnumber race fans in the Homestead area, which is south of Miami. |
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And it is fair to say they are rather desperate to catch Chucky the alligator and the other five alligators. |
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Caiman belong to the group known as crocodilians, which also includes alligators and crocodiles. |
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The gardens contained heated pools for his menagerie of alligators and tropical turtles. |
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At Gatorland, lake levels were lowered in order to prevent floods spilling the 1,000 alligators and crocodiles into the surrounding area. |
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This environmentally protected area is home to turtles, crabs, dolphins, and alligators. |
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For now, the alligators in the Florida Everglades are holding their ground against the invading snakes. |
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When docking or beaching, look for evidence of turtles, birds, alligators and other animals along shore. |
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Stunned parkgoers have even spotted the pythons in epic battles with native alligators. |
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Coyotes, white-tailed deer, elk, and even alligators can cause problems on the ground. |
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The lake view turned out to be a murky green puddle of water several feet deep, full of moss, slime, and a pack of vicious alligators. |
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Potential alligators should form an orderly crocodile line and apply quickly to avoid tears. |
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Saltwater marshes and ponds dot the landscape, and alligators lazily sun themselves on banks. |
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Many people think there is a big difference between crocodiles and alligators, but this is not correct as they both belong to the same family. |
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A variety of turtles lived in the rivers, along with gar, freshwater clams and snails, crayfish, and alligators. |
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Bullough brought alligators and giant turtles to the island, where they lived in heated glasshouses. |
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His artsy-craftsy zoo has a wide range of snakes, alligators, canines, dinosaurs, kangaroos, horses, dolphins, apes, chimpanzees et al. |
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How many boats going at high speeds are noticing the osprey, bald eagles and alligators? |
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Loss of habitat, prey, and polluted waters are some of the risks that alligators already face. |
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A similar story can be told for several other species of toads, frogs, salamanders, alligators, and turtles around the world. |
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Meanwhile this guy is having nightmares here, dreaming that alligators and lions are chasing him. |
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They are going to tranquilize the deer if they find him with tranquilizer guns, but they have to shoot the alligators. |
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Numerous bacterial and fungal species have been cultured from the mouths of alligators. |
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North American river otters are sometimes taken by bobcats, coyotes, birds of prey, alligators, and other large predators. |
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Reptiles like alligators, snakes and lizards as well as marine animals like seals, whales, sharks and bony fish are also used as well. |
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What you don't want to do is go swimming at night or someplace where there are alligators. |
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A crocodilian is any member of an order of reptiles that includes crocodiles, alligators, caimans, gavials, and related extinct forms. |
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Her husband, a tall, stout fellow who probably wrestles alligators for fun, stomps ahead, engrossed in the sports pages of the paper. |
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Still, bears are warm-blooded mammals and thus are more similar to humans than are cold-blooded reptiles like the alligators. |
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We're a 110-acre theme park with alligators, snakes, spiders, and creepy-crawly stuff. |
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We turn next to crocodiles and alligators, in which the heart has two anatomically separate ventricles. |
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They could see the scaled skin of crocodiles and alligators along with an assortment of fish swimming about. |
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Their descendants include extant species such as birds, crocodiles and alligators. |
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The precipitous decrease in size and numbers of American alligators taken for trade reflected a species in decline. |
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The island is a natural habitat for abundant wildlife, with alligators, fallow deer, river otter, and armadillos. |
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Two alligators were sitting at the side of the mangrove swamp near Nassau. |
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Louisiana needs a senator who will stand up to the career politicians, and the alligators. |
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Accessible only by boat, the island provides a natural habitat for a diverse community of wildlife including alligators, fallow deer, dolphins, river otters, and armadillos. |
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This is like telling a man wrestling four alligators not to ignore that 30-foot anaconda that just slipped into the pond. |
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People swim into pool walls, people swim into each other, and, in certain parts of the U.S., people swim into alligators. |
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In fact, there are 23 species of alligators, crocodiles, and their kin, the caiman and gharials, and they are collectively all known as crocodilians. |
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Alligators eat you, bees sting, crabs pinch, riding a dromedary makes you dizzy. |
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There are snakes and alligators everywhere, and the more you see, the more you realise the city isn't going to be liveable for who knows how long. |
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Alligators and crocodiles have dots on their skin that scientists have long suspected to be sense organs. |
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I've radio-tracked sandhill and whooping cranes, black bears, Florida panthers, alligators, gopher tortoises, fox squirrels and even an indigo snake. |
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Many land companies began to lease sections of the marshes to individuals with exclusive rights to hunt, harvest alligators, and trap abundant muskrats and other furbearers. |
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Traveling by airboat over thick, floating marshes and rounded levees, he enthusiastically points at countless alligators, scurrying nutrias, and several bald eagle nests. |
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Alligators and crocodiles have nerves in their teeth, and when they feel the bar, they chomp down. |
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The zoo here is now playing host to a pair each of seamy crocodiles, alligators and caimans, giving the city dwellers a glimpse of some rare species. |
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While I know that they, like me, are up to their keesters in alligators, they'd best remember to also worry about draining the swamp. |
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Embryonic Chinese alligators shifted more than a centimeter toward heating pads, Du and his colleagues report in the March American Naturalist. |
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If the housing market were human, it would look like it just wrestled a few alligators, after running an obstacle course through a snake pit. |
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Eco Pond was alive with alligators, soft-shelled turtles, mallards and coots. |
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Although they appear to be similar to the untrained eye, crocodiles, alligators and the gharial belong to separate biological families. |
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All crocodiles are tropical species that, unlike alligators, are very sensitive to cold. |
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Species of caimans, that are related to alligators and other crocodilians, also inhabit the Amazon as do varieties of turtles. |
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One moment of weakness, and the alligators can eat you alive. |
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The claim that alligators live in New York City's sewers is an old urban legend. |
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You'll need a car for this, but it's worth it to zoom through the swamps on an airboat like James Bond, spotting alligators and other wildlife. |
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Other than its poster child status, what makes American alligators so important to Florida? |
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Recent evidence suggests that American alligators may be capable of transmitting West Nile virus to other alligators. |
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Seventy-five American alligators were obtained from southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. |
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American alligators live in swamps, ponds, and streams of southeastern states such as Florida and Louisiana. |
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Although human remains and jewelry have been found in their stomachs, gavials are not as fierce as many alligators and crocodiles. |
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Last summer, 15 baby Chinese alligators hatched on Chongming Island, China. |
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Chinese alligators are among the most vocal crocodilians, and their thunderous, seemingly tone-deaf chorus is no laughing matter. |
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Massachusetts defines aquaculture to include farms that raise trout, salmon, tilapia, barramundi, bait, mollusks, leeches, alligators and eels. |
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She describes the anatomy, mating behavior, and predatory techniques of crocodiles and their close relatives, alligators and gharials. |
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When Sendak made an alphabet book, he called it Alligators All Around. |
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Salt glands are present in the tongues of crocodiles and they have a pore opening on the surface of the tongue, a trait that separates them from alligators. |
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Alligators have been described as living fossils, having survived on earth for 200 million years. |
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Feral horses wander through its moss-covered oak forests, alligators slink through its sulfurous marshes, and, every year, thousands of loggerhead turtles nest on its beaches. |
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The gharial, with its narrow snout, is easier to distinguish, while morphological differences are more difficult to spot in crocodiles and alligators. |
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Recent additions include a bald eagle exhibit, a giant anteater exhibit, river otters, tree shrews, Chinese alligators and renovation of the Fabric of Africa exhibit. |
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The baby alligators represent a milestone for the 10-year effort to reintroduce the Chinese alligator on Chongming Island, located at the mouth of China's Yangtze River. |
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But there were no such problems with a couple of Chinese alligators. |
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It's a 100-acre wildlife park populated by thousands of alligators with breathtaking zip-line rides above the snapping jaws of those basking in the mud below. |
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This might be why in alligators they are absent on the rest of the body. |
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Wolves, mountain lions, black bears and alligators all make for grabby headlines, because they really strike fear into the hearts of the general public. |
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Alligators and crocodiles died out in Europe as the climate cooled. |
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