Although people call the Chinese alligator a crocodile, it is actually not a fish, but an ancient reptile, an alligator mouse of the Crocodile family, and a relative of the same family who is far away from the United States-the Mississippi crocodile. Although we are very close, alligators are much bigger than alligators. Adult Chinese alligators are generally only one and a half meters long, rarely more than two meters long, while adult male crocodiles are more than four meters long and extremely fierce. Chinese alligators are good at digging pig holes and hibernating, and eat a lot. Their favorite foods are snails and mussels, followed by small fish and shrimp, rabbits and snakes. And Want Want Snow Cake is not in their recipe at all.
Chinese alligators can store a lot of nutrients, so they are very hungry. It hibernates without stress and can hibernate from the end of 10 to April. But there is also a problem. A crocodile lays 10 to 30 eggs at a time. These eggs are laid in the middle and late July, naturally hatch in the middle and late September, that is, they eat quickly and hibernate in another month. Yes, if the baby crocodiles are not full this month, their survival rate will be reduced. Chinese alligator belongs to a temperature-changing animal and needs to rely on the external environment to regulate its body temperature, so it often likes to lie in the sun at the door.
Although they have short legs and look like a dull MengMeng, they are actually very decisive and quick-witted. Crocodiles have a pair of terrible teeth, but they belong to escaping teeth. They can't bite or chew. They can only swallow the whole food. Don't panic when you meet prey that you can't swallow. Those on the shore drowned in the water, and those in the water drowned on the shore. Then you hold the dead prey in your mouth, hit it hard on a stone or tree, break it and soften it before swallowing it, or throw it away by inertia. If it doesn't work, it will rot. Don't worry, the Chinese alligator has a very strong stomach and won't get indigestion. Sometimes they will disguise themselves as a piece of wood and float on the water. They are not used to being found by turtles.
Crocodiles are gentle and have never been hurt. Most of the time, when he is hungry, he will stare at the fish and chickens in the hands of the villagers by the river and then sneak in. Catch one while they were not paying attention, but then they all started to take weapons, and they were holding hands anyway. Although the Chinese alligator is docile and afraid of people, the hungry Chinese alligator and the female crocodile during the nest protection are still very aggressive, so we can't relax our vigilance and run to interact when we see crocodiles that look like Chinese alligators. So we'd better avoid crocodiles when we meet them outside.
According to scientific research, crocodiles are conservatively estimated to have a history of survival and evolution of 200 million years, that is to say, in that era when reptiles ruled the earth, their ancestors once walked with dinosaurs. Later, great changes have taken place in the environment of the earth. Many reptiles have been extinct, but they have survived and flourished until now. Therefore, people also awarded the honorary title of crocodile living fossil, but now crocodile has also been awarded another title, which is a national first-class protected animal in China. Due to the change of environment and climate, human beings killed crocodiles and destroyed their habitats, by the end of 1990s, the number of wild Chinese alligators had decreased to less than 150. Fortunately, the number of wild Chinese alligators has increased now. We established a nature reserve for Chinese alligators a long time ago and artificially propagated them. At present, the number of captive Chinese alligators has reached about 15000, and some of them have been released into the wild. I believe that in the near future, the critical state of the Chinese alligator will be reversed.