# Talk:American alligator

Should be Texas to North Carolina unless someone can furnish a source. Current sources for western and northeastern limits in range are pretty explicit:
"Though they have not returned to Virginia just yet, American Alligators can be found from Florida to North Carolina, just shy of the VA border." (Virginia Living Museum)
"The American alligators were only spotted in the US side of the Rio Grande in old meandric spots called "Resacas" ... The reports of sightings and capture of alligators in the Mexican side of the Rio Grande are possibly due to specimens that were released or that have escaped  from  private  collections,  but  could  also  indicate  a natural  occurring migration of alligators ... We  hope to  come back  to  the site  and do  nocturnal  surveys to  more precisely detect the range limits of these two crocodilian species."(Sigler 2007)
Cheers, Fredlesaltique (talk) 06:41, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

I have noticed that an editor has changed the term "warm temperate" to "subtropical", which is fine and doesn't require a revert, as the two terms are interchangeable. However the claim "warm temperate climate doesn't exist" is inaccurate in itself. Indeed the Köppen classification system uses the term subtropical, but there are other major classification systems which often use this term, as indicated in bold letters in the article the editor themselves linked while making these claims. Just wanted to make that clear, despite the edit itself not requiring any further changes. 85.153.200.69 (talk) 12:35, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

I feel like this assumed "fact" about crocodilians and reptiles in general really could use some editing on many wikipedia articles, for the simple fact that despite how often it is repeated as a fact, there is little evidence most reptile species actually grow throughout their lives. Indeed there is substantial evidence most of them don't. I'm new to editing on wikipedia though, so I am unsure how proper it is to remove stated things from an article if the source I include isn't up to snuff. Here's some sources I am considering and I'd like to know if I should just include one or all of them:
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/natural-world/no-crocodiles-are-not-immortal/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170503110755.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34075719/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Perentie Fan (talk • contribs) 01:34, 6 April 2022 (UTC) 

Hello @Adpr99: Do you have a source for this edit? Invasive Spices (talk) 29 September 2022 (UTC)

What is the average lifespan of the American alligator? The article doesn't say. 192.31.105.163 (talk) 01:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Ok, I added a Lifespan section. It looks like the average age is around 50 years. Cougroyalty (talk) 23:02, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
@Cougroyalty: 'Possibly over 70 years'. Well, in the Płock zoo still lives a female American alligator named Marta, officially born in 1930 (purchased in 1960)... BasileusAutokratorPL (talk) 22:34, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello,
@Fredlesaltique already discussed this, but his question has not been followed up. It appears that the description of the American alligator's range in the lead ("small section of NE Mexico") is unsourced and incorrect. Can anyone provide a source for an extant population of American alligators in NE Mexico? I can only find records at any present time for vagrants swimming in the Rio Grande, which is on the border. Additionally, this part of the article is self-contradictory, as the Distribution section discusses the possibility of a Mexican alligator "in the future." 
This source [1] shows that alligators are present in Mexico, but others don't. Either way, the article contradicts itself. Mellykates (talk) 22:46, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Without a solid source I think the article can safely be edited to remove reference (that is, mention) to northeast Mexico. The map is also suspect. Fredlesaltique (talk) 05:20, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
Edited. Thank you Mellykates (talk) 16:29, 15 April 2025 (UTC)