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About Alligator |
| Habitat: An Alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. Alligators are only native to the United States and China. American alligators are found in the southeast United States : all of Florida and Louisiana, the southern parts of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, coastal South and North Carolina , Eastern Texas, the southeast corner of Oklahoma and the southern tip of Arkansas. Alligators have also been found in extreme southern Missouri along the Mississippi River during the summer months. According to the 2005 Scholastic Book of World Records, Louisiana is the state with the largest alligator population. The majority of American alligators inhabit Florida and Louisiana, with over a million alligators in each state.
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| Conservation: The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) is a conservation success story. Due to loss of habitat and unregulated market hunting, alligators were reduced to low numbers by the early 1900s. Thanks to the efforts of conservationists and state wildlife agencies, alligators were listed as endangered in 1967. This status, combined with proactive management and law enforcement efforts by wildlife professionals, allowed alligator populations to rebound and they now flourish over most of their historic range. Alligator populations increased to the point that their protected status was down listed in 1987 allowing greater flexibility to manage populations.
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