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Did you know there are two species of alligator on the planet? We all know about the American alligator, but its distant cousin is the diminutive Chinese alligator, restricted to a small province of eastern China called Anhui.
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www.flmnh.ufl.edu/alligatorfund/
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/alligatorfund/
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Chinese Alligator (Yangtze Alligator) ... The Chinese alligator is a small, inconspicuous member of the alligator family. It grows to an average length of 5 ft (1.5 m), although 7 ft (2.1 m) is common. Chinese mythology records them as being 10 ft (3 m) in length, but this size has never been noted scientifically.
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www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/crocodile/chinall.html
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Chinese Alligator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Chinese Alligator or Yangtze Alligator (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: nonononono, Alligator sinensis ) is one of two known living species of Alligator , a genus in the family ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Alligator
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Chinese Alligator (also called the Yangtze Alligator) ... The Chinese alligator is one of two species of alligator. (The other is the American alligator seen in this picture) ; Chinese alligators live in a just a small part of north-eastern China. It is thought that there are just 150 Chinese alligators left in the wild.
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www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/Chinaaligator.htm
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Chinese Alligator Fund ... The Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis) is believed that it will become extinct in about fifteen years.. At the moment in a area called Anhui in China, are thirteen ponds with only about ten of these actually holding the alligators with any one pond having a max of eleven animals.
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www.onet.net/~eagle/Reptile/chinese.htm
www.onet.net/~eagle/Reptile/chinese.htm
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Chinese Alligator. Chinese Alligator summary with 2 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. ... The Chinese alligator is listed as a CITES Appendix I species, which puts extreme restrictions on its trade and exportation throughout the world. It is IUCN Red Listed as a critically endangered species.
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www.bookrags.com/Chinese_Alligator
www.bookrags.com/Chinese_Alligator
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Similar to caimans, but unlike their closest relatives, American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis), Chinese alligators have a bony plate in the upper eyelid. ("Chinese Alligator", 1994; Mertz, 2003)
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animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/informatio...
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Alligator_sinensis.html
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The Chinese alligator is one of the smallest crocodilians (a group that also includes crocodiles, caimans and the gharial) and one... ... The Chinese alligator is one of the smallest crocodilians (a group that also includes crocodiles, caimans and the gharial) and one of the most endangered. The stocky body is covered in...
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www.arkive.org/chinese-alligator/alligator-sinensis/
www.arkive.org/chinese-alligator/alligator-sinensis/
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Characteristics--This alligator differs from the American alligator in that it has a more blunt head with eyelids that have a bony plate. The Chinese alligator also has a bony belly plate that the American doesn't have.
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www.china.org.cn/english/2001/Dec/23578.htm
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