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Courtship to Hatchlings!

Here in Shark Valley, we have lots of alligators!

**Most of these photos are taken with an Olympus Digital camera and are of good quality, however, some are photos taken with a 35 mm camera, then scanned, therefore, they may not be as fine quality as the others. These scanned photos are marked with **.

Fighting Gators!
Face off	Battling Bulls #1	Battling Bulls #2

Bellowing Gators!
Bellow #1 Ordinarily done in the water, the alligator lifts its head up, then fills its throat with air similar to a frog.	Bellow #2 The gator lifts its back as it begins the guttural sounding bellow. Males usual bellow longer and deeper then females.	Water Dance The Alligator creates such a heavy vibration as it bellows, the water will typically bounce, or "dance" over its back.

Romantic Gators!
**Happy Couple	**"I Rub You!" Courtship #1	**"I Rub You too!" Courtship #2

Nesting Gators!
Gator Nest	Watching Mommy to be	Keep Away!

New Hatchling Gators!
Momma's Help Only a statue of how they help their babies out of their eggs. This Statue can be seen at the Earnest F. Coe Visitor Center in the southern end of the Everglades National. Park.	New Babies at Rest Very new hatchlings rest at the base of their nest, near the waters edge. Mother is just beyond the babies to the left out of sight of this Photo, as she watches them carefully.	Opened Nest Looking closely you can see the egg fragments in the depreciation of the freshly dug out nest. The babies just to the left.

Momma & New Hatchlings!
Momma & Hatchlings #1	Momma & Hatchlings #2	M & H #3

More Mamma & New Hatchlings!
Momma & Hatchlings #4	Momma & Hatchlings #5	**Momma & Hatchlings #6(link)

Adult Gators		Baby Gators

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*© All photography on this sites pages is by Dimagi unless otherwise stated.

If you wish to use any photos for non-profit personal use, and/or for your local school,

 you are welcome to do so.

If you wish to use some photos on a larger scale for non-profit education,

Please notify me, and most likely it will be approved at no charge, so long as proper credit is given.

If you intend to use some photos on a web page, please insure proper credit is given.

(Links back to Shark Valley's Home page would be highly appreciated.)

If you wish to use any photos in a profitable manner, you must contact me first!

Thank you for your cooperation, I hope you enjoy.

*On this page, no animated gif belongs to Dimagi, except the butterfly, and are believed to be public domain and are free to use.

  However, the bird on the branch bar, gator head icon, butterfly gif and Everglades Park Banner do belong to Dimagi, and do apply to © rules above .*

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