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The American alligator may grow as long as 15 feet and has 80 teeth that regenerate if lost. Its diet includes fish, turtles, birds, snakes, frogs, small mammals, and smaller alligators. Its range extends along the Atlantic coast of North America from North Carolina through Florida and along Florida’s Gulf Coast into Texas. When young alligators are ready to hatch, they call to their mother, who digs them out of the nest mound and carries each hatchling to water. The temperature of the nest determines whether hatchlings are male or female. After overhunting led to endangered status in the 1960s, state and federal protection and habitat preservation helped save the American alligator from extinction.
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