Alligators

on February 20, 2020 at 11:26 am

Dr. Wayne Lynch

Canada’s Wildlife Specialist
Natural History Writer & Photographer

WILDLIFE PHOTOS FOR JANUARY, 2020

I got an unexpected Christmas surprise this year; the early release of my 62^nd book and my 5^th title with prestigious Johns Hopkins University Press. The book is Alligators – The Illustrated Guide to Their Biology, Behavior and Conservation.

At the beginning of the project eight years ago I perused every book that had been written about alligators in the previous 50 years and searched multiple photo agencies to see what kind of images others had taken and published. I wanted to know which aspects of alligator life had been repeatedly photographed and which had not. Not surprisingly, basking gators snoozing in the sunshine were common, but many other behaviors and photo angles had been rarely captured including: courtship, mating, hatchlings, predation, underwater images, and closeup photographs taken at ground level and water level with wide angle lenses. That became my challenge, and what an adventure it was.

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A Hatchling Resting on Water Lettuce A Hatchling Silhouetted by the Midday Sun The Alligator is an Ambush Predator With the Bulk of Its Body Hidden Below the Water’s Surface The Alligator has a Streamlined Aerodynamic Shape Juvenile in a Cypress Swamp Hatchlings Emerging from Their EggsHatchlings Emerging from Their Eggs Courtship With a Small Female Following a Large Male An Alligator Can Cool Itself By Gaping An Adult Alligator Swallows a Decaying Softshell Turtle Alligator Floating Motionless in a Florida Spring A Water Level View of a Basking Adult Alligator A Subadult Swallowing a Crayfish