All About Alligators
Jan 26, 2021•31 min
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Episode description
Gia and Bob are in Bob's backyard on a cold winter afternoon talking all about alligators. Alligators are a great American success story. Thanks to Christina Zorn for the great research! This episode is part of our Keystone Species series.
Keystone Species series episodes: Firefighting Beavers
Our sources for this episode include:
- Definition of Alligator
- Alligator Biology and Behavior
- JW Lang and HV Andrews, J Exp Zoology (1994) Temperature-dependent sex determination in crocodilians.
- Cramp Meyer Sparks and Franklin. (2008) Functional and morphological plasticity of crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) salt glands. Journal of Experimental Biology 2008 211: 1482-1489; doi: 10.1242/jeb.015636. https://jeb.biologists.org/content/ 211/9/1482
- American Alligator from National Geographic
- Crocodilian Biology Database
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