National Geographic: Realm of the Alligator Page #3
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an alligator getting hold of you
and doing some real damage.
Kent has found that alligators here
at the farm are fairly harmless
especially during mating season.
And, to increase his knowledge,
he puts this opinion to
a highly meaningful test.
We learned early on in our research
that we needed to get off
the boardwalks
and go down and look at alligators
at an alligator's eye level.
Alligators communicate to
each other visually by the way
they hold their bodies
out of the water.
And we got down into the water
to better understand
how alligators are talking
to each other in a visual sense.
Kent has taken a lot of kidding
about being up to his eyebrows
in alligators and "seeing eye to eye"
with his study subjects.
But he feels that because he can
understand an alligator's body language
he can ward off trouble before
it becomes a real threat.
I look for animals that are obviously
directing themselves toward me
as aggressive animals.
The way they tilt their head
and how high they hold their body
out of the water
are all indications
if they're being aggressive or not.
Not all the animals that come
towards me are aggressive.
Many are curious, but I still have
to treat them all about the same.
I can't let them get too close to me.
I carry a large, about five-foot-long
cypress pole with me,
And if an animal does get too close,
I just nudge it away and try to
keep it out of strike range.
The meaning, if any, of an alligator's
impressive yawn is not understood;
head-slapping display
has been deciphered.
It is an assertive gesture,
advertising an alligator's
social position.
In courtship season
the alligators stage
"bellowing choruses" almost daily.
Both sexes bellow, but they
make somewhat different sounds.
Just before a male bellows,
he produces subsonic signals that make
dram females from a great distance.
Courtship is a quiet and oddly tender
process
that Kent has sometimes been able
Courtship is usually initiated by one
animal swimming slowly up to another.
And this is a very important stage
of courtship
because they have to communicate
to each animal that they
have non-aggressive intentions.
And secondly,
they go into a period of touching one
another along the face and neck.
And they really orient to each
other's head and neck.
in the third phase of courtship these
touching behaviors
become more exaggerated
and the animals start pressing
And these are real tests of strength
between the two animals.
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