Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 207
by means ofheavy wire netting and to place reptiles of verynearly the same size in each inclosure. Big Joe,the monarch of the establishment, weighingnearly six hundred pounds, is kept by himself.Otherwise, it is alleged, he would soon be theonly alligator there. The eggs are placed in incubators… … alligators HATCHING OUT FROM THE EGGSIN THE INCUBATOR. ters from eating them. They grow very slowly,so that an alligator two feet long is about twoyears of age, and one twelve feet long may befifteen years or more. Some reach a length ofsixteen or eighteen feet. If allowed to follow their…
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