St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park

We recently read a wonderful paper about some snakes’ tails fluorescing under black light.  It seemed odd to us that they didn’t mention whether or not an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Cr...

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/why-would-a-rattlesnakes-tail-glow-under-black-light/

Well, after some pretty detailed research, we still don’t know for sure! Check out this paper about a study done on the crocodilians at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm.   CLICK HERE TO VIEW P...

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/why-do-crocodiles-sit-with-their-mouths-open/

We are happy to have been able to help with this amazing paper about how crocodilians create sound.     CLICK HERE TO VIEW PDF DOCUMENT

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/a-chinese-alligator-in-heliox-format-frequencies-in-a-crocodilian/

Haley D. O’Brien, Leigha M. Lynch, Kent A. Vliet, John Brueggen, Gregory M. Erickson and Paul M. Gignac2   Synopsis Body size and body-size shifts broadly impact life-history parameters of all...

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/crocodylian-head-width-allometry-and-phylogenetic-prediction-of-body-size-in-extinct-crocodyliforms/

Christopher M. Murray1,2, Peter Russo3, Alexander Zorrilla4, and Caleb D. McMahan5   The freshwater crocodile inhabiting Papua New Guinea, currently recognized as Crocodylus novaeguineae, exhibi...

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/divergent-morphology-among-populations-of-the-new-guinea-crocodile-crocodylus-novaeguineae-schmidt-1928-diagnosis-of-an-independent-lineage-and-description-of-a-new-species/

The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is excited to have been a part of this research. You can see from the photos how amazing working with the FLIR camera is, but even more amazing is...

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/the-frontoparietal-fossa-and-dorsotemporal-fenestra-of-archosaurs-and-their-significance-for-interpretations-of-vascular-and-muscular-anatomy-in-dinosaurs/

By: Stephanie K. Drumheller, James Darlington & Kent A. Vliet CLICK HERE TO VIEW PDF DOCUMENT

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/surveying-death-roll-behavior-across-crocodylia/

On January 18, 2019 Karen Allen came to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm.  John Brueggen, our Director, and his wife, Jen, took her and two of her friends (Joan and Charlynn) on a tour of the Fa...

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/meeting-karen-allen/

Using objects as hunting lures is very rare in nature, having been observed in just a handful of species. We report the use of twigs and sticks as bird lures by two crocodilian species. At least ...

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/crocodiles-using-tools/

Many species alter skin color to varying degrees and by different mechanisms. Here, we show that some crocodylians modify skin coloration in response to changing light and environmental condition...

https://www.alligatorfarm.com/can-crocodiles-change-color/