It comes in handy when they crack open vertebrates with hard shells like turtles.Īlligators have long, rounded snouts that have upward-facing nostrils at the end. This allows them to breathe while the rest of their body is underwater.
They also have four short legs with the front legs having five toes while the back legs only have four toes.īoth sexes have an armored body with a muscular, flat tail.
The skin on their back is also embedded with bony plates called osteoderms. Yellow stripes appear on young alligator’s tails, while adults have dark stripes. It’s also easy to identify the teeth of an alligator vs. In alligators, their lower teeth are not visible when they close their mouths. Whereas in crocodiles, the large fourth tooth in the bottom jaw appears. Also, mature alligators have 80 teeth in their mouth at a time. Replacing the teeth as they lost them, alligators may go through 3,000 teeth in their lifetime. Image from Adobe Stockįemale alligators are smaller than male alligators. The average adult size of a male alligator is 11.2 feet, while the average female adult size is 8.2 feet.
Both sexes also do not reach extreme weights. A mature female is about 91 kilograms, while a mature male weighs up to 360 kilograms. How to identify a crocodileĬrocodiles have long, pointed, V-shaped snouts compared to alligators. It’s also not that difficult to tell the difference between an alligator and a crocodile from a distance. You only need to look at the shape of their snout and the visibility of their teeth. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.Crocodiles create a toothy grin as they close their mouth due to the same size of their upper and lower jaws. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. (is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013).
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