The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 13, 2017, 12:28:18 pm
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Alligators eat sharks — and a whole lot more
by Sarah Zielinski
9:00am, November 3, 2017
Alligators don’t just stick to freshwater and the prey they find there. These crafty reptiles can live quite easily, at least for a bit, in salty waters and find plenty to eat — including crabs, sea turtles and even sharks.
“They should change the textbooks,” says James Nifong, an ecologist with the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Kansas State University in Manhattan, who has spent years documenting the estuarine gator diet.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/alligators-sharks-saltwater