Ep. 429: Wrastling Gators
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Effects of Metabolic Heating on the Thermal Regimen of a Nest
Alligator hatchlings in the egg when they're ready to hatch will kind of make this little chirp noise like do it. And that signals uh hatching to occur theoretically in the other eggs around that egg. It also theoretically we have but it also helps mom know that it's time to come over. Alligators incubation about 65 days on average, so she lays them. She might scudaddle. She could. But then she might come back around hatch time. Well she usually stays there for a week or two after over-possing. Defends the nest is hanging around. They use that sound like if they're looking for a big gator. That should
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