About This File
American Alligator by James Clark
The American alligator is the largest reptile in North America. The range of the American alligator includes all of the land along the banks of the Gulf of Mexico. They live primarily in swamps and marshes, but also in rivers, lakes, and smaller bodies of water. They can tolerate a reasonable degree of salinity, being occasionally found in brackish water around mangrove swamps, although they lack the buccal salt-secreting glands present in crocodiles.
Originally released: November 2001
Later released: July 14, 2003 at Zoo Admin
Current amerigator.ztd date: November 23, 2025
Updated: November 23, 2025 by Jay to link to ZT's crocodile animations and sounds instead of using copies, to remove an unnecessary space in the animal info, to add configuration to allow it in freshwater tanks, to change the preferred object icon to match its preferred object of Water Lily, to show the preferred object tooltip for females and young, to have the animal not dislike more of its kind, to have it also like Water Reed and Tank Filter, to play sounds when it is picked up and put down, to have it play sounds at times when it doesn't but should, to increase the opportunities for ZT to see if it was hit by a tranquilizer dart, to have it not use land animations in certain cases when it is on water terrain, and to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines.