How long does it take them to grow teeth?
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> Chuck,
> I put a Hawaiian gator on my homepage for your inspiration:
>
> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/index.html
>
> Joel W.
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Much of a cypress swamp is rather shallow water (often just 6-18" deep)
>> and pretty densely covered with vegetation. Not suitable for gators who
>> like deeper and more open water. You're not likely to see a gator in
>> the swamp until the water opens out into deeper, open space often
>> created by the gator himself and referred to as a "gator hole". As the
>> swamp dries up in the dry season (now) the small fish and other water
>> loving critters get forced into the hole as the only place where there
>> may be water. The gator eats well then until his hole dries up. I
>> won't likely see a gator unless I venture out into the hole or the area
>> around the hole which I'm not likely to do... at least with just a 28mm
>> lens. I might be under water by that time too. Might be 6 or 8 foot
>> deep out there.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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