Third reading.....

Alligators and the everglades.....

The Florida everglades is a system of river and it comes from Lake Okeechobee. The first settlers created a drain for their homes and farms.  Actually a dam store the water for the lake, and some of that water flow the everglades.

The everglades is a home for many creatures, and the water is the key for those species. In this place rains since May to October so the dam got sixty inches of water, then it begins to dry up the everglades. for that reason big areas become dry land. the grass and other species die.

When that season comes every animal look for the way how to survive, for example birds fly off to wet spaces, deers look for water, frogs and turtles dig down the mud. Many animals die in that season, fish almos die 90%  in the dry weather.

In the special case are alligator who dig big holes where it remains water. These holes become a home for many insects, turtles, etc. Alligators eat fish,turtles, snakes and other animasl, and sometimes they eat the animals in the holes where they live.

The food chain in this place is very important to save the life of different animals. It begins with mosquitoes who they feed fish with their eggs, and the fish becomes the food for alligator who makes the big holes where many species lives during the dry season.

Alligators are animals who lives in the southeastern of the United States. They are old animals living in the earth. They could be under water for long periods of time.

Specifications for Alligators:

• They have 75 - 80 teeth.
• The temperature determines the gender of alligators.
• In wildlife they can live 35 years.
• They are so big when they are adults.

Actually alligators are in danger, cause its skin is used for made many things. for that reason we have to protect them, if they die, many species will die too.

Indeed, to protect the everglades it was created the Everglades National Park.