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.
Taxonomy. The average size for an adult female American alligator is 8.2 feet (2.6 m), and the average size for a male is 11.2 feet (3.4 m). Exceptionally large males can reach a weight of nearly half a ton or 1,000 pounds.fter two to three years, they leave that area in search of food, or are driven out by larger alligators. One interesting aspect of alligator biology is that they undergo periods of dormancy when the weather is cold. They excavate a depression called a âgator holeâ along a waterway and use it during dormancy.