ALLIGATOR HATCHING SEASON

It's gator hatchin season! Look closely mama gator is there ready to attack anyone messin with her new hatchlings. When the baby gators hatch out, they're only about 6 inches long. If the nest is a long way from the water; sometimes mom will give them a ride in her mouth to the water. She doesn't feed them though, they have to do their own hunting right out of the egg. What do baby gators eat? Anything they can, small fish, frogs, large insects, bugs, whatever they can catch, that doesn't eat them. Plus everything eats the baby gators when they hatch, fish, birds, snakes, other alligators. So they have a very high mortality rate, only about 1 in 5 will make it breeding size, which is about 6 feet.