The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . place a substantial distance betweenhim and themselves. The food of the alligator consists of fish, mammals and younger individuals feed largely upon the former, togetherwith frogs, tadpoles and insects. Water fowl fall the frequentprey of the big specimens which approach the unsuspectingquarry from below as the latter paddle upon the surface. Aten-foot alligator can easily swallow a medium-siz
The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . place a substantial distance betweenhim and themselves. The food of the alligator consists of fish, mammals and younger individuals feed largely upon the former, togetherwith frogs, tadpoles and insects. Water fowl fall the frequentprey of the big specimens which approach the unsuspectingquarry from below as the latter paddle upon the surface. Aten-foot alligator can easily swallow a medium-sized duck, entire. If the prey is too large to be swallowed whole, it is shakenviolently and thus torn. This shaking process is so vigorous thatthe entrails of the prey are often sent flying for a distance oftwenty feet or more. Sometimes, when swimming for shallowwater, there to swallow the food, another alligator is met andthe two reptiles indulge in a not altogether bad-tempered tear-ing up of the food. Each takes a firm hold and turns aroundbodily in the water in an opposite direction from that of theadversary. The manoeuvre soon divides the morsel. As the THE REPTILE BOOK PLATE XXX. Copyright, 1907, by Doubleday, Fage & CompanyALLIGATOR. Alligator misstssippiensts. In all o* the large rivers of the South the Alligator has been practically exterminated. It is yet moderately abundant inlakes and lagoons surrounded by heavy timber or swampy areas.
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