While there are reports of one alligator, held in captivity, that lived to be well over 100 years old, something like 40 years might be a more typical old age for alligators living in the wild.
This limits their range to the warmer, wetter areas in the southeastern United States from Texas to North Carolina. Because they are cold-blooded reptiles, alligators are not big fans of cold weather. (There is a nice interactive presentation on Utan available at the Alligator Adventures Web site.)Īlligators are fresh-water animals and can be found in lakes, ponds, rivers and irrigation canals. He is claimed to be the largest living Crocodylian in captivity. At the Alligator Adventures alligator park in Myrtle Beach, SC, a very large crocodile named Utan weighs in at 2,000 pounds and is almost 20 feet long. Males can actually get much larger - 1,000 pounds is not unusual.
Females are, on average, about 8 feet long and weigh about half as much as male alligators. Male alligators are, on average, about 11 feet (3.5 meters) long and 600 pounds (270 kg).
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