November
Some cats just have more balls than brains. This is a very amusing video of a cat that actually makes an alligator back down away from him.
Also check out the links below to other videos I posted this past week week. I promise you will enjoy them just as much this one.
- Eyeless Dog That Sees Like Bats & Dolphins
- Helicopter Nearly Crashing On Take Off (No One Gets Hurt)
- Baby Gives The Evil Look
- Sweet Puppy Barks In Its Sleep
- Armless Man Shooting Handgun With His Feet
- "The Jungle Book's" Baloo & Real Bear Scratching Their Backs on Tree
- Super Sexist Socialist Spanish Get Out The Vote Ad
- Owl Named Kitty, Who Loves Human Attention
- Ben Underwood, The Eyeless Boy Who Could See As Good As If He Had Eyes
Some American alligator facts
for those who care
for those who care
American Alligator range
- Type: Reptile
- Diet: Carnivore
- In the wild, alligators tend to live between 30 and 50 years, while those in captivity have been known to live 65 to 80 years.
- Size: 10 to 15 ft (3 to 4.6 m)
- Weight: 1,000 lbs (453 kg)
- The American alligator resides in fresh water, brackish marshes, swamps, rivers and bayous. While they inhabit the entire Southeastern United States, they are mostly found in Florida and Louisiana..
- An alligator's tail accounts for half of its total length and is used primarily for propulsion, but it is also used as a weapon of defense when threatened.
- American alligators hibernate during the winter in burrows (or "dens") that they construct, but may occasionally emerge during brief spells of warmer weather.
- Alligators do not feed during the cooler months. Studies in captivity have shown that alligators generally begin to lose their appetite below 27°C (80°F), and stop feeding altogether below 23°C (73°F). They can easily last the winter on their energy reserves.
- Adult alligators can survive freezing conditions if they are in water. They submerge their body but keep their nostrils projecting above the water surface, so that when the surface freezes they can still breathe (called the "icing response"). Essentially their upper body becomes trapped in the ice. However, occasionally alligators may be trapped completely below ice, and have been known to survive for over 8 hours without taking a breath, because the freezing water slows their metabolic rate down to very low levels. Yet another example of their amazing ability to survive.
- People often wonder how to tell an alligator and a crocodile apart. Alligators have flat, wide heads with broad round noses. Crocodiles have long triangular shaped heads. The easiest way to distinguish them, however, is by looking at their teeth. Almost all of a crocodile's teeth stay outside of the mouth when closed. An alligator's lower teeth fit inside the upper ones.
About Me: I am a born again Christian who enjoys talking religion and politics. I have always believed that it is the Christian's obligation to understand the workings of our government as well as they do the precepts of God. Jesus tells us to be "wise as serpents and harmless as doves". (Mark 10:16) So it is with this understanding that I approach life. I was born in the Midwest, and while I may have grown up in Northern Minnesota, I have earned my degree in knowledge and understanding from the many regions of America and Europe that I have either lived in or visited as an adult.
GO CAT, GO!