Hanging out with seven and talking about how long an alligator can go without eating! It’s amazing to think that a large alligator can go an entire year without eating anything at all, but their metabolic requirements are so much lower than ours because they don’t produce their own body heat and they’re very good at conserving energy. I have even heard people say they know of alligators going two years without eating although I don’t have any verification of that. In the wild, they will eat when

Why do the alligators eat SO LITTLE!? More info on him from previous posts-At @evergladesholidaypark Seven is our biggest gator at EHP, he’s 10ft and likely around 350-400lbs. He gets the name 7 for a weird reason- alligators have five toes on the front feet, four toes on the back feet, so a total of 8 back feet toes. He is missing one of his back foot toes, so he only has 7 total back foot toes. So his name is 7, makes perfect sense right? He has his own enclosure all to himself now, he’s gotte

What do gators eat in the wild? Whatever they want 😂 they’re top of the food chain, but surprisingly they’re also all about minimal effort!! They want easy food, this fear of them chasing someone across a football field is literally impossible. They focus much more on east to catch prey in the water and specialize as aquatic ambush predators, NOT terrestrial pursuit predators. Adult humans are also outside their normal menu! With over a million gators in Florida, if they actually wanted to eat

Alligator vs. Crocodile!