. Zoological Society bulletin . ORINOCO CROCODILEThe extremely slendei snout is very similar to the gavial. 1006 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. ALLIGATOR AND CROCODILEBoth examples are from Florida. Our series of alligators varies from aneleven-foot giant, whose roar shakes theReptile House to tiny eight-inch specimens,brought north by tourists. Midway betweenthese two extremes are a number of speci-mens of all sizes. The most valuable onesare those hatched in the Park in 1900, andin relation to which a table of growth isgiven in a preceding paragraph. Three representatives of the Central andSou
. Zoological Society bulletin . ORINOCO CROCODILEThe extremely slendei snout is very similar to the gavial. 1006 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. ALLIGATOR AND CROCODILEBoth examples are from Florida. Our series of alligators varies from aneleven-foot giant, whose roar shakes theReptile House to tiny eight-inch specimens,brought north by tourists. Midway betweenthese two extremes are a number of speci-mens of all sizes. The most valuable onesare those hatched in the Park in 1900, andin relation to which a table of growth isgiven in a preceding paragraph. Three representatives of the Central andSouth American genus Caiman, are in theReptile House. They are young examples ofthe Spectacled Caiman (C. sclerops), receiv-ing its name because the eyelids are so roughand protruding that they suggest the frameof a pair of spectacles. Most of the caimanshave rather a sharp snout, like the crocodiles,but from a structural point of view they aremore nearly related to the alligator as thelong teeth, the fourth on each side of thelower jaw—the pair of canine teeth—fit intoa pit in the upper jaw and are thus concealedwhen the jaws are clo
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