Название: Alligators: The Illustrated Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation
Автор: Kent A. Vliet, photographs by Wayne Lynch
Издательство: Johns Hopkins University Press
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 302
Размер: 169,5 МБ
Язык: English
The ultimate guide to understanding the biology and behavior of the amazing and underappreciated American alligator.
Few scenes put the senses on edge more than a submerged alligator, only eyes and snout showing, when peering across a southern lake on a misty morning. An iconic American predator, these reptiles grow to thirteen feet or more and can live as long as humans. Alligators are complex creatures, capable of terrific attacks and yet tending to their young in the same gentle way a mother duck looks after her brood. Once extremely numerous, alligators came close to extinction in the twentieth century, but thanks to conservation efforts have since made a comeback, reclaiming their rightful place as the monarchs of the southern wetlands.