Scientific literature is filled with research regarding the stomach contents of crocodilians. Almost all of them refer to the plant material found in the animals’ stomachs as either an accident (i.e., the crocodilian got leaves in its mouth while trying to swallow a prey...
Crocodilians have the ability to swallow prey under water: The palatal valve, in the back of a crocodilian’s mouth, is a unique adaptation that seals the throat off from both air and water. With the palatal valve shut a crocodilian can grasp food...
Siamese Crocodiles as parents: In May of 2000 the St. Augustine Alligator Farm decided to do things a little differently. Typically, when the alligators or crocodiles lay eggs the keepers collect the eggs and put them in an incubator. ...
Crocodilians feeding their young?: More and more we are realizing how closely birds and crocodilians are related. They have many similar adaptations and behaviors. However one distinct difference is that crocodilians are not known to feed their young. Unlike most birds,...
Courtship behavior was observed in a captive group of about 150 individually-marked, adult American alligators Alligator mississippiensis over a three year period....
Adult alligators perform two conspicuous social displays, bellows and headslaps. Both of these behaviors are preformed from a "head oblique tail arched" (HOTA) posture....
Green screen technology was used by National Geographic Television to make a great video of all 23 species of crocodilians morphing from one species to the next. Since the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is the only place in the world that has every...
Insights into the Ecology and Evolutionary Success of Crocodilians Revealed through Bite-Force and Tooth-Pressure Experimentation...
By using an endoscope (a small camera that can be inserted in the body cavity), Dr. Maud Lafortune of the University of Florida's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, was able to evaluate the respiratory tract of alligators. The camera was slowly inserted down the trachea of...
An ancient ironreveals new mysteries: mummy DNA ressurects a cryptic species with the Nile crocodile....