Chinese Alligator in Yangtze River History – Endangered Animal, Living Fossil

Chinese Alligator in Yangtze River History – Brief Introduction

In Yangtze River History, there are many ancient animals living in Yangtze River. After centuries, some of them are disappeared, some of them are evolved, and some of them are still living with the ancient life style such as Chinese Aligator.

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Chinese Alligator in Yangtze River History – Endangered Animal

Chinese Aligator mainly lives in the fresh water, which mostly distributed in Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province and other places. Chinese Aligator is not only one of the ancient animals but also one of the scarce reptiles of endangered animals of the world.

The reptiles have dominated in Mesozoic period. But some of them have become extinct with the changeable global climate. Fortunately, few of Chinese Alligators are survived.

Chinese Alligator in Yangtze River History – Living Fossil

It is easy to find some characteristics of ancient reptiles such as dinosaurs by researching the Chinese Alligators. Therefore, Chinese Alligator is also called the living fossil by people.

In Yangtze River history, Chinese Alligators usually live in reed and bamboo region along the water. It feeds on the fish, frogs, escargots and clams and others.

Sometimes it will sneak attack the domestic fowl and damage the farmland, thus it has been hunted because people regarded them as the harmful animals. Chinese Alligator become endangered.

Chinese Alligator in Yangtze River History – Feature

Chinese Alligator is 2 meters long and it is deep brown on its back. It is grey on its belly. There are lots of big fish scales on its skin.

Chinese Alligator have a winter sleep from the October annually, and it will come out again in April or May next year. Chinese Alligator mates in June every year and spawns in July or August. The little Chinese Alligator will come out from the shells.

Chinese Alligator in Yangtze River History – Research Significance

Chinese Alligator has important significance of researching the development history of ancient reptiles' and other living beings', but also make contribution of researching the ancient geology. Now, Chinese Alligator is regarded as the Chinese specialty animal and one of the First-grade of State Protection Animals.