American Alligator - Alligator mississippienisis
The American Alligator is the largest reptile in North America. The alligator's diet includes almost all life. The prey of small hatchlings are insects and larvae and devolop into eating full large mammalsThis alligator is a carnivore that eats fish, turtles, mammals, and birds. Alligators have many rows of teeth in the mouth, that are not for chewing but for capturing pray. The stomach contains a gizzard and the digestive system. The alligator swallows rocks known has gatroliths that help grind up the food in the gizzard and submerge the alligator. Alligators do not have a bladder, so waste is excreted through the cloaca, an opening to the outside of the body.