Amazing Alligators

Unlike most animals, with sex chromosomes, the American alligator has temperature-dependent sex determination 🌡️

For alligators and their relatives, this means warmer incubation temps produce mostly males and colder temps, mostly females! 🥚

Gators are also one of the few reptiles that show parental care—the female will fiercely guard her nest, but also stays with the hatchlings for up to two years, carrying them on her back and even in her mouth! 🐊

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