Alligator Diet

Alligators are primarily carnivores in their diet eating lots of fish, aquatic reptiles, and other small aquatic mammals, however they’ve been to known to eat oddities such as soft drink cans. As young, they consume lot of insects, small crustaceans, and small fish.

Alligators do the majority of their hunting at night in and around the watery areas where they live. They will strike and hold their prey and try to swallow it whole as they do not have teeth to grind their food. They will sometimes take their prey under water, drown it, and then tear off pieces of their prey. They’ve also been known to hold food in their mouth to the point it begins to decay so they can swallow it. They have a unique opening in their throat which allows them to capture prey underwater and then expel the water.

Alligators do not hunt very well on land and will typically sit motionless at or near the water’s edge and wait for prey to come into range. This technique allos the alligator to grab the head of their prey and pull it into the water where it can then drow.

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