American Alligator

## Background

The **American Alligator**, often referred to as the common alligator, is one of the largest living crocodilians. They are apex predators whose diet consists of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and small-to-large mammals.

## Codex Statistics

**Tier:** **9-C**, **9-B** with Piercing Damage

**Name:** American Alligator

**Origin:** The Real World

**Sex:** Varies between individuals (can be male or female)

**Age:** Varies between individuals (usually lives up to 30–50 years)

**Classification:** Reptile

**Status:** **Active** (Officially listed under a conservation status of "least concern")

**Alignment:** **Unaligned** (Animals have no real moral compass asides from very primitive ones, thus they fall under no true alignment as they're not inherently evil, good, or neutral)

**Dimensionality:** **3-D**

**Attack Potency:** **Peak Human level** (American Alligators can knock out or even kill humans with their physical strikes), **Wall level** with Piercing Damage (Has a bite force of 2980 psi, or 581.8085993 kilojoules)

**Durability:** **Peak Human level**

**Striking Strength:** **Peak Human Class**

**Lifting Strength:** **Peak Human** (They have been known to overpower cows, who weigh over 1200 pounds)

**Travel Speed:** **Regular Human** on land (An alligator can run up to 11 mph on land), **Athletic Human** while swimming (Alligators can swim up to 20 miles per hour), **Superhuman** in short bursts (Alligators are capable of short bursts of speed up to 30 milers per hour)

**Combat Speed:** **Athletic Human**

**Reaction Speed:** **Athletic Human**

**Stamina:** **Below Average** (Alligators have poor endurance, making them only able to sprint for short periods of time), **Higher** in water (Alligators have more stamina while in water)

**Range:** **Standard Melee**

**Intelligence:** **Animalistic**

## Powers and Abilities

**Superhuman Physical Characteristics**, **Stealth Mastery** (Alligators can dissapear completely in just a few feet of murky water), **Natural Weaponry** (American alligators can use their sharp claws and teeth as weapons), **Aquatic Breathing** (Alligators can stay submerged underwater for up to 8 hours in very cold water), **Observation** (Type 1; Any living being or object that is capable of making measurements using any of the five senses influence reality in subtle ways, a phenomenon known as the observer effect)

## Other

**Standard Tactics:** American Alligators normally wait in water for thier pray to get close to them and lunge to bite them.

**Weaknesses:**

* Their snouts and eyes are very sensitive.
* Their gag reflex can be stimulated to let go of their prey.
* Exothermic body leads to a low metabolism, and therefore makes its energy get depleted fast.

## References

1. ↑ American alligators were once threatened by extinction, but after being placed on the endangered species list in 1967, their population increased. This species is now classified as least concern. The main threat to these reptiles today is habitat loss caused by wetland drainage and development.
2. ↑ If they whack you or clocked you in the head just right, getting knocked out could happen, but they could cause more serious damage than that, possibly even kill you with just hitting you in the head
3. ↑ How hard do alligators and crocodiles bite?
The answer is a bite force value of 3,700 pounds for a 17-foot saltwater crocodile (as well as tooth pressures of 350,000 pounds per square inch). That's the highest bite force ever recorded — beating a 2,980-pound value for a 13-foot wild American alligator Erickson's lab measured in 2005.
How fast can an alligator run on land?
Most experts believe that the average alligator can run up to 11 mph (18 kilometres) on dry land for a brief amount of time. However, due to their weight, they run in a zigzag motion that slows them down and tires them out pretty quickly.
How fast can alligators swim?
An alligator can swim up to 20 miles (32 kilometres) per hour
6. ↑ Alligators don’t really like to run long distances, and although they can travel very quickly in the water, they are typically slower moving on land. However, even with their heavy bodies and slow metabolisms, alligators are capable of short bursts of speed that can exceed 30 miles per hour. This speed is typically seen when an alligator is lunging after prey on the bank of the water, not running across a large area of land.
7. ↑ Alligators don’t really like to run long distances, and although they can travel very quickly in the water, they are typically slower moving on land. However, even with their heavy bodies and slow metabolisms, alligators are capable of short bursts of speed that can exceed 30 miles per hour. This speed is typically seen when an alligator is lunging after prey on the bank of the water, not running across a large area of land.
8. ↑ A secondary set of eyelids, known as the nictitating membrane, act as underwater goggles, allowing the alligator to see underwater. Alligators can stay underwater for much longer than humans. A typical dive might last 10-20 minutes. In a pinch an alligator can stay submerged for up to two hours if it is at rest. And, in very cold water, an alligator can last up to eight hours submerged.

## Battle Records

* Victories
* Losses
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