6.5 feet to 13 feet. Males may reach up to 18 feet, female rarely grow past 9 feet. Fresh water shores, swamps, and lakes from North Carolina to Florida and west to Texas. Breeding occurs in late winter and spring and usally in the water. It takes about 60 days for the eggs to hatch.
Nests are are mounds made with raked up dirt, debris grass and leaves.
They then deposit their 30 to 40 large eggs into the mound. At least eighty to ninety percent of them will hatch. Hatchlings weigh only a few onces at birth and are about 8 inches in length. Alligators do not mate for life. Males have areas, which contain serveral females that they will breed each year.