The wake, Puerto Rican style. These odd wakes are taken very seriously by the families of the deceased, who say they are attempting to pay tribute in a special way to their loved ones. PUERTO RICO â A man dressed as The Green Lantern. A Che Guevara look-alike holding a Cuban cigar. A courier on his favorite motorcycle.
In most animals, offspring genders are determined by sex chromosomes at the time of conception. But alligators and other crocodilian species, as well as some turtles and lizards, do not have sex chromosomes. Instead, the sex of the young is determined by the temperature at which the eggs incubate during a critical period of development. Alligators American alligators live in freshwater environments like marshes, wetlands, swamps, ponds and rivers. They range west from Florida to southern Texas and north to parts of the Carolinas. Alligators have broad snouts and are predators of fish, turtles, other reptiles, birds and small mammals.
That is how people can tell the alligator and the crocodile apart. The alligator can grow to be eight to nine feet long, if female and 11-12 feet if male. In the wild alligators can live up to 30-35 years, but if in captivity can live up to 80 years old. Habitat Requirements The American alligator lives in Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana. It lives in salt-free and pollution-free water. The alligator eats mostly fish and small animals. It will eat large things such as deer or house pets, if they come to the water. The American alligator is territorial. It needs its own space, because it requires a lot of food. It always goes back to its area after mating. That is about the alligator's habitat. Adaptations The American alligator has a camoflouge color, a greenish brown color, to blend in with the water in which it lives. It also uses 2,000 to 3,000 teeth over its life time to catch its prey. It has as many as 80 teeth in its jaw at one time. Reasons for Endangerment The American alligator is not endangered, because it is legally protected. The alligator is protected from being killed for skins to make shoes, purses, and food. The American alligaters has only one predator, humans. Then US legislatures made a law saying that people can't kill alligators.