American alligator
Subtitle: ancient predator in the modern world
By: Kelby Ouchley
Contributors: Ransom, Burg, photographer
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780813049137
Subjects: Alligators; American alligator
Description: A natural history of the American alligator. Having survived since the Mesozoic era, alligators teetered on the brink of extinction in the 1960s. Protected by legislative intervention, today's populations are closed monitored throughout their range. Ouchley examines the lessons we have learned about urban development and energy production, and how they can still threaten the alligator and its southern wetland habitat.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [111]-132) and index.
Table of contents: title: Natural history. In the beginning ; Names and places ; "Their toes are five in number" ; To build an alligator ; Root hog, or die; title: The human factor. First encounters ; Near fatal attraction ; A love/hate relationship ; "What good is it?"; title: Afterword.