At a time when beaches and theme parks draw boisterous crowds, Florida’s alligators simply want a little peace and quiet—a comfortable log or a sunlit bank on which to bask uninterrupted. They’re resting in preparation for the spring, getting ready to begin an active, noisy mating period that begins about now and during which members of both sexes bellow from the swamps and defend their territories.
Learn more about this creature, whose population has made a spectacular recovery from man’s past predations, by
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