Alligators are frozen into the ice due to cold weather
Alligators living in the national Park Marsh Park river leopard’s chase Golf club in the U.S. state of North Carolina, again frozen into the ice. This publication reports The Charlotte Observer.
Published The Swamp Park Thursday, 24 January 2019
A few days ago, the river has held down the ice. Soon, the Park staff found that there lived reptiles are frozen. “Here in the ice all of our alligators, says Park Manager George Howard. Eighteen Mississippi alligators thought about the future, just put our noses out.”
Published The Swamp Park Thursday, 24 January 2019
He believes that they sank in so-called brumariu — dormant reptiles, which lowers body temperature and slows the rate of metabolism.
In 2018, when on the East coast of the United States was established frosty weather and the air temperature dropped to minus 30 degrees, the alligators of the Shallotte River Swamp Park for the first time plunged into ice hibernation. Then Howard claimed to have never encountered such a technique of survival.
According to him, he first took the ice protruding from the muzzle of the pieces of wood, but then saw the teeth. “Immediately it became clear why they do that, he said. — But just in case, I quickly checked and made sure that everything is in order, because I’ve never seen.”
Published The Swamp Park Thursday, 24 January 2019
Mississippi alligators are common in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Louisiana. There are instances of up to 4.5 meters in length, but on average they grow up to 3.4 meters and weight up to 200 kilograms.