"THE AMERICAN
ALLIGATOR - BIG CYPRESS SWAMP, FLORIDA" |
Hunted
to the brink of extinction to make purses and shoes from its hide, the
alligator is a conservation success story. Healthy numbers once again
stalk the sloughs and swamps of the southeast United States, this one
in Big Cypress Preserve in Florida. Its crocodilian cousins are not faring
so well in Africa, South America, and Asia, though only in Asia is the
species endangered, for now.
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© Danny Kimberlin
2013 |