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I have had quite a bit of interaction with crocs, alligators and caiman. A lot of it is related to snake collecting in the swamps but possibly the most interesting in crossing a then unexplored jungle, http://www.image-ination.com/Darien/.
I have always been fascinated by them. As a youth I kept five Caiman and a alligator in a pond in the back yard. The alligator grew faster than the caiman and eventually ate them all. One day when I was away at college it bit my father and later died in a mysterious accident.
What may be of interest is it easy to call alligators. Hold your mouth open. Press your tongue against the roof of your mouth and emit sort of a "gung" sound with a click sound. Do this repeatedly. The alligators will usually come streaming. The males looking for dinner as the sound mimics the sound of baby alligators. I assume that the females are coming to interrupt dinner. I have tried this with crocodiles without success.
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Gosh, Carl, you've shed a whole new light on the alligator for me. I didn't know they were 'gung ho' cannibals. Do they have any redeeming features whatsoever?  What I learn't today: Alligators are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Crocodilia, family Alligatoridae. 
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learn't
Does this mean you did or you didn't?
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learn't
I thought it meant he couldn't think of a good nonsense poem with all those words in it.
I'll play a chordata
With my vertebrata,
And call the reptilia;
Not all crocodilia,
But only, I'll say,
An Alligatoridae.
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Just happ'ned to have some odd apostrophes that I needed t' get rid of...
"Anyone read 'The Eyre Affair' and it's sequel yet?", he ask'd, rapidly changing the subj'ct and shedding apostrophes and commas as he went.
I like the poem tho'.
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the poem
It practic'ly wrote it'self.
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"Gosh, Carl, you've shed a whole new light on the alligator for me. I didn't know they were 'gung ho' cannibals. Do they have any redeeming features whatsoever?"
Yes probably the biggest danger to young alligators are other alligators.
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But the Mom's are very protective, aren't they? Do any other reptilia look after their offspring?
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