American crocodile
- Scientific name:
Crocodylus acutus
These crocodiles can be found living in fresh or salt water without any problem.
American crocodile
- Crocodylus acutus
Main features:
• These crocodiles can be found living in fresh or salt water without any problem.
• The glands of this crocodile cause them to secrete excess salt in the form of tears, allowing it to clean around its eyes with this solution.
• The morphology of the American crocodile is conical and is provided with a powerful tail, it has a resplendent olive green color.
Reproduction:
• The ideal months in which these animals mate are January and February, when they have reached sexual maturity at the age of 6 years.
• In this nest it will lay around 35 to 50 eggs, and it will have an incubation period of 2 to 3 months. At the end of the laid eggs usually survive only 1% of them.
Feeding:
• They are carnivorous, the diet of this species is based on all kinds of mammals, birds that come to quench their thirst, crabs, insects and snails.
Distribution:
• Its distribution includes the southern Gulf of Mexico, the Greater Antilles, except Puerto Rico, and the coasts of Central and South America.
Zoo Vida Exótica en Baños de Agua Santa Rules
- Do not feed the animals.
- Keep your hands out of the cages.
- No pictures with FLASH.
- Do not catch the animals.
- Do not throw objects inside the cages.