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The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), ... Defensive American alligator with mouth open. American alligators are capable of killing humans, but fatal ...
The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus (c. 440 BC) described the crocodile in detail, though much of his description is fanciful; he claimed the crocodile would lie with its mouth open to permit a "trochilus" bird, possibly an Egyptian plover, to remove leeches. [178]
When [the crocodile] has glutted itself with fish, it goes to sleep on the banks of the river, a portion of the food always remaining in its mouth; upon which, a little bird, which in Egypt is known as the trochilus, and, in Italy, as the king of the birds, for the purpose of obtaining food, invites the crocodile to open its jaws; then, hopping ...
The 13-foot male alligator was ‘humanely killed’
How close would you get to an alligator? Most of us would probably keep a pretty safe distance, but one man in Louisiana clearly likes to get up close and personal with the terrifying creatures ...
A giant alligator carrying a smaller gator in its mouth stunned onlookers in Lakeland, Florida.Julie Smith posted video on March 8 that shows the larger gator dragging the smaller reptile, locked ...
The alligators' broader snouts have been contentiously thought to allow their jaws to withstand the stress of cracking open the shells of turtles and other hard-shelled animals that are widespread in their environments. [61] [62] A 2012 study found very little correlation between bite force and snout shape amongst 23 tested crocodilian species ...
Another obvious trait is that the upper and lower jaws of the crocodiles are the same width, and the teeth in the lower jaw fall along the edge or outside the upper jaw when the mouth is closed; therefore, all teeth are visible, unlike an alligator, which possesses in the upper jaw small depressions into which the lower teeth fit. Also, when ...