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Alligators are native only to the United States and China. [19] [20] American alligators are found in the southeast United States: all of Florida and Louisiana; the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; coastal South and North Carolina; East Texas, the southeast corner of Oklahoma, and the southern tip of Arkansas.
Florida honored the American alligator in 1987, but the Gators have titled the University of Florida's teams since 1911. In that year, a printer made a spur-of-the-moment decision to print an alligator emblem on a shipment of the schools football pennants; the mascot stuck, perhaps because the team captain's nickname was Gator. [108]
The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to as a gator, or common alligator is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States and a small section of northeastern Mexico.
Alligators have become a common sight in freshwater lakes, ponds, rivers and swamps in the southern U.S. These menacing reptiles may look like crocodiles at first, but if you get a chance to look ...
List of animal species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands. Add languages ...
The sewer systems of Florida are teeming with an “abundance” of alligators, racoons, and a dozen other animals using the drain pipes to traverse the city, scientists reveal in a new study.
This list of bird species introduced to the Hawaiian Islands includes only those species known to have established self-sustaining breeding populations as a direct or indirect result of human intervention. A complete list of all non-native species ever imported to the islands, including those that never became established, would be much longer.
Lake Machado today is the attractive center of Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park in Harbor City, a haven for birds and native plants. But in the summer of 2005, the lake was a polluted watering hole ...