29 August 2011
Mother Gator Protects Her Young
This was taken by a visitor to my nature center last week. You can watch the mother gator helping babies hatch out of the nest at the beginning then see the drama that unfolds as a Green Heron tries to make a hathling gator a snack.
Don't miss the little baby turtle hatching in the middle of the video. A Red-bellied Slider laid her eggs in the alligator nest and they hatched on the same day!
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That's amazing. I didn't realize they had so many babies. Do they all survive? There must be a low survival rate for those babies. Otherwise you'd have alligators stacked on top of each other.
Maybe 1 or 2 survive at most!
We also have another nest that has hatched so this will be a big year for baby alligators. The first double nest year!
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