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Later Alligator

 So, we have a family thing to watch one movie once a week as a family movie time. Last week we watched Crawl a 2019 horror adventure. And gosh! I found it thrilling unlike my family. They found it disturbing ,scary and mostly creepy. Well.... That was the whole point. However, this was just a movie, mostly CGI. But imagine.. being face to face with this killing machine, definately amazing but super dangerous. 




Made its biggest home to USA, widely in Florida and louisiana. Around 1 million American alligators live in Florida alone. Alongside alligators it is also home to crocodiles. 

Alligators and crocodiles belong to the same scientific order that is crocodylia but different families Alligators to Alligatordae and Crocodiles to Crocodylidae. A very easy way to identify them is to look at their differences. Like the very big difference is their jaw and teeths. 





Alligators have wider, U-shaped snout. The teeths of the lower jaw fits in the gaps of the upper jaw perfectly leaving the teeths of the upper jaw visible when the mouth is closed. 

Whereas, the snout of crocodiles are pointed and V shaped. The teeth of the lower jaw fits outside of the gaps of the upper jaw leaving teeths of both the jaw visible when the mouth is closed. But if you come across one by any chance, run. Cause the difference is no difference both are super strong and pretty fast to hunt down its prey.



Alligators are exceptionally fast in water and land. On land they can reach speed upto 35mph and in water can reach upto high speed of 20mph. Woah! So.. ya you gotta be really fast if you come across one. 


One amazing thing is that even in high speed alligator never loss the sight of their prey. Whether on land or in water. This is because of its eyes and eyelids. The eyes of the alligator is as big as a human eye. Like cats, alligators also have a lining in the back of their eye which helps to reflect light that is entering the pupil of the eye. It makes their eyes glow in the dark when light hits their eyes as well as helps them to see in no or low light conditions like muddy water.


And thats not all, to protect the eyes these creatures have two eyelids one is a normal eyelid that blocks unwanted light from entering the pupil and the second is a transparent eyelid, crystal clear eyelids that open and close from side to side that acts like scuba diving goggles when the alligator submerges into water, it stops water from blurring its vision underwater. So...it's fast on land and in water and has a vision under water that nevers goes blurr.... That explains alot, no doubt why Crawl comes under a horror adventure gener.

Definately not a adventure I want. 






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