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4 unusual facts about Alligator


Juniperus deppeana

The bark is usually very distinctive, unlike other junipers, hard, dark gray-brown, cracked into small square plates superficially resembling Alligator skin; it is however sometimes like other junipers, with stringy vertical fissuring.

Louisiana Swamps

Louisiana Swamplands have different kinds of animals, including the American Alligator and the American Black Bear.

Lucky's Lake Swim

Alligators have been seen in the lake at times and some swimmers do swim with knives, but there has never been an alligator attack.

Southwick's Zoo

There are many other animal exhibits on zoo grounds, such as Binturongs, Capybara, Brazilian Tapirs, White Rhinos, an American Alligator, and more.


Albert and Alberta Gator

He walked out of an elevator and became the object of Steve Irwin's alligator wrangling tendencies.

Alligator boat

West & Peachey built 230 alligator tugs between 1889 and 1932 for customers across Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, the Yukon and the northern United States from Maine to Wisconsin.

Alligator farm

In the second season of The Amazing Race Australia, teams had to visit a Cuban alligator farm and feed a wheelbarrow full of chum to a pen of alligators along with capturing an alligator with a stick and rope in order to receive their next clue.

Alligator gar

In November 2008, a 0.5- to 0.6-m-long alligator gar was caught in the north of Esenguly, Turkmenistan by two officials of Turkmenistan Fishery Protection.

In January 2008, a 3-kg alligator gar was found by fishermen in Bera, Pahang, Malaysia, when it was entangled in a fishing net.

Alligator Pie

In 1991, Alligator Pie was made into a short movie with puppeteering by Jani Lauzon and produced by Michael MacMillan.

Alligator Pie, first published in 1974, is a popular book of children's poetry written by Dennis Lee and illustrated by Frank Newfeld.

Alligator Point, Florida

Alligator Harbor is known for its clam harvesting and was featured on Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs."

Alligator Sky

His "Alligator Sky" self makes an appearance at the end of the music video for "Deer in the Headlights" where he is nearly run over by himself driving the DeLorean (from Back to the Future) after coming to the year 2015.

Alternanthera

Biological pest control agents now in use to reduce alligator weed infestations include the alligator weed flea beetle (Agasicles hygrophila), the alligator weed thrips (Amynothrips andersoni), and the alligator weed stem borer (Arcola malloi).

Amos Moses

The song tells the story of a one-armed Cajun alligator hunter named Amos Moses, son of Doc and Hanna Milsap, who lives "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana".

Anhinga Trail

In 2003, tourists witnessed a fight between an alligator and a Burmese python which went on for 24 hours, until a larger alligator joined the fight and the snake escaped.

Atlantic stingray

In freshwater habitats, they may be preyed upon by American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis).

Biker-Jens

He tried everything from alligator-wrestling to gatecrashing a Ku Klux Klan meeting, while also meeting a handful of Danes living in America and having successful careers, such as NFL kicker Morten Andersen, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, and actor/stuntman Sven-Ole Thorsen.

Bobby Charles

His compositions include the hits "See You Later, Alligator", which he initially recorded himself as "Later Alligator", but which is best known from the cover version by Bill Haley & His Comets; and "Walking to New Orleans", written for Fats Domino.

Bold Alligator

Bold Alligator 2012 was held ashore and afloat, in and off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, and it culminated in three large-scale operations - an amphibious assault at Camp Lejeune; an aerial assault from the sea into Fort Pickett; and an amphibious raid on Joint Expeditionary Base East.

Bruce Iglauer

The Alligator catalog contains over 250 albums, ranging from electric Chicago blues and blues rock to acoustic Piedmont blues and West Coast jump blues.

Čabulītis

At various times, the alligator was also known by the names Ulmanītis, Ali and Gena.

Disney Mobile

Launched September 22, 2011, Where's My Water?, a mobile game, starring Swampy the alligator - the first Disney original mobile character - for 20 days in October 2011 rivaled Angry Birds even becoming the top mobile game on the iTunes’ bestseller charts for a short time.

Ellen Trout Zoo

Animals that visitors will see at the zoo include DeBrazza's Monkey, Kestrel, Russell's Viper, Jaguar, Jamaican Fruit Bat, Galapagos Tortoise, Fly River Turtle, Bontebok, Sulcata tortoise, Ruddy Duck, Malayan Tapir, Spectacled Owl, Chilean Flamingo, Toco Toucan, Saki Monkeys, Cotton-top Tamarin, Alligator, River Otter, Hippopotamus, Bali Mynah, Clouded Leopard, Maasai Giraffe, and White Rhinoceros.

Emory Peak

High-desert flora and fauna including alligator juniper (Juniperus deppeana), pinyon pine (Pinus cembroides), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), prickly pear cacti (Opuntia spp.), Mexican Jay (Aphelocoma wollweberi), sotol (Dasylirion leiophyllum), and Texas madrone (Arbutus xalapensis) may be seen along the trail.

Futaba-Kun Change!

Several other canon characters make cameos, including Street Fighter characters, Sesame Street puppets, Ryoko and Aeka from Tenchi Muyo!, Magical Taluluto from Magical Taluluto, or even Hiroshi Aro himself (drawn as a glasses-wearing alligator).

Jay A. DeLoach

The USS Alligator was the first submarine built during the Civil War by the Union Navy.

Katy Prairie Conservancy

The Texas coastal prairie/marsh ecosystem originally supported large populations of alligators, bullfrogs, white-tailed deer, American bison, Pronghorn, American Black Bear, Eastern wild turkey, red wolf, Eastern Gray Squirrel, fox squirrel, and muskrat.

Louisiana Swamps

The swamplands are home to a few trails as well as many different kinds of animals such as herons, egrets, ibis, bullfrogs, cottonmouths, alligators, and coypu (nutria) rats.

Mangrove Robin

Subspecies leucura was described by John Gould in 1869, subspecies alligator was described by Gregory Mathews in 1912, and subspecies cinereiceps was described by Ernst Hartert in 1905 – all three of these subspecies are found in Northern Australia.

MetroTech Center

Two pieces called Alligator and Visionary are part of the Commons' permanent public art collection by the well-known sculptor Tom Otterness.

Mike Greenwell

He had captured an alligator, taped its mouth shut, and put it in Ellis Burks's locker.

Miss Lucy had a baby

The variants including a woman with an alligator purse urging the baby's mother to vote have been seen as a reference to Susan B. Anthony, an American suffragette.

Mountain Jam

The Dead can be heard quoting a few bars of "There is a Mountain" in their song "Alligator," from the Dead's Anthem of the Sun album, released in 1968.

New Orleans Squadron

The next day, the expedition defeated five of the squadron's gunboats under Thomas ap Catesby Jones at the Battle of Lake Borgne, USS Tickler and USS Alligator were also scuttled or captured.

Northeast Cape Fear River

The river and its valley are home to a variety of interesting and uncommon flora and fauna, including the palmetto, cypress, alligator, pileated woodpecker and bowfin.

Pairi Daiza

The "ship" also includes the zoo's rescue center for animals such as pythons, boas, iguanas, turtles, and alligators which were handed over or abandoned by former owners who could no longer care for them.

Peter Andrew Jones

He has also produced images for film publicity, creating the movie posters for The Sword and The Sorceror and Alligator, contributed during the early 1980s to television shows including BBC comedy The Two Ronnies Show and the BBC's '80s sci-fi adaptation of The Tripods, and has produced cover illustrations for video game publishers such as US Gold, Psygnosis and Virgin Interactive.

Sewer alligator

An additional reference to the sewer alligator exists in Thomas Pynchon's first novel, V..

Skipping-rope rhyme

It is also possible that "the lady with the alligator purse" in the lulu/lucy/Susie rhymes is a direct reference to U.S. suffragette Susan B. Anthony who was known for this trademark handbag.

Tamiami Trail

Plans for the I-75 extension changed for two reasons; Alligator Alley needed upgrading as the then-narrow toll road was dangerous to both motorists and wildlife (most notably the Florida panther) alike; and State Road 836, with its left exits and narrow lanes, was not being built to Interstate Highway standards.

The Nameless City

In ancient times, the Nameless City was built and inhabited by an unnamed race of reptiles with a body shaped like a cross between a crocodile and a seal with a strange head common to neither, involving a protruding forehead, horns, lack of a nose and an alligator-like jaw.

Turk Murphy

Murphy was the singer for the 1971 Sesame Street cartoon shorts, "The Alligator King" and "#9 Martian Beauty" animated and produced by his long-time friend, animator Bud Luckey.

Tyrrell County, North Carolina

The county is divided into five townships: Alligator, Columbia, Gum Neck, Scuppernong, and South Fork - which are all part of the IBX - Inner Banks.


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