National Geographic: Realm of the Alligator Page #2
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if they...
No, they don't eat for several months
during the winter.
I should think the average member
of the public that comes to Okefenokee
and sees an alligator thinks
they have really arrived in prehistory
Back in the Age of the Reptiles.
The study of alligator social behavior
has occupied Kent Vliet
for several years.
At his laboratory in Gainesville,
Florida,
he works with a wealth
of accumulated data.
We've learned that alligator
behavior is very, very complex.
It's much more complex and
much more sophisticated
than the behavior of other reptiles
that have been studied.
And so our dealings with alligator
behavior have been to try to
document the types of behaviors
they show and analyze these,
alligator behavior,
but as they might represent
the primitive beginnings
from which the more complex behaviors
of birds and mammals have evolved.
Most of Kent's observations
have been made at
the St. Augustine Alligator Farm.
Several hundred alligators are
on display here
for the enlightenment of tourists.
The farm affords easy access to
before that just to see
Are there many differences
between these gator-farm alligators
and the ones you get in the wild?
lot different from wild animals.
The most noticeable difference...
Is that the head of a captive animal
is much broader.
You don't have this beautifully
elongated snout.
That's because captive animals spend
so much time on land basking,
and at least in old animals like these
the head weighs so much
that is just tends to flatten itself out
over the years.
It spreads out and becomes much broader
Is that what squeezes the teeth out too
Yeah...
because they're all showing
very obviously here?
They're very toothy animals
Also all the scales on their back
are worn down...
much more so than
And that's just because these animals
live in very high densities on farms,
and they crawl over each other.
they just kind of buff each other
down all the time.
Since 1981 Kent Vliet has made
a detailed study
of alligator behavior
in the mating season
from April into June.
But Kent was not happy
with his original vantage point.
It was secure, but didn't provide
an accurate water-level view.
a procedure not without certain risks.
It is possible, when you're in the lake
that a big male will decide
he doesn't want you there
and actually come up and try
to get you out of his territory.
We've had very few problems
when I was swimming in the lake,
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