Why is alligator poop white?

The white color of droppings is from the nitrogen content in the feces. Birds, reptiles, and amphibians all can have white in their droppings.
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What color is alligator poop?

It is brown when fresh and fades to beige, buff, or olive as it dries. When completely dry it is white and crumbly. The size of the scat depends on the size of the animal. An enormous specimen can produce droppings of several inches in diameter.
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What does crocodile poop look like?

What do crocodile feces look like? Crocodiles usually excrete feces in a single large dropping with varied colors, depending on their diet. Crocodile feces can be of different sizes depending on the animal's size. Large individuals can leave waste as large as several inches.
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What happens to alligator poop?

Feces, which comes from the intestine and urine, which is filtered from the blood stream by the kidneys, are commingled in the cloaca. The commingled urine and feces are excreted as one mass. Also, like birds, alligators deposit a portion of digested nitrogen in the form of uric acid.
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Do alligators turn white?

Albino alligators are alligators that lack the ability to produce melanin in their skin. This genetic defect gives their skin a yellowish white appearance and the eyes generally cast a pinkish hue due to the visible blood vessels in the colorless irises.
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Can alligators smell period blood?

Be very careful. It is highly recommended that all menstruating women wear a diaper in addition to a full wetsuit too help cover the scent of their menstruations. Like bears, gators can smell the menstruation, which will put your entire party at risk.
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Are alligators deaf or blind?

Myth 3: Alligators have poor eyesight

Despite what you may think, alligators actually have very good eyesight. With their eyes positioned on the side of their head, they have a fairly wide range of sight. Along with their excellent range, they're able to see and sense movement of potential prey.
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What is gator poop look like?

The poop has a green or brown color with a white spot when fresh. It then switches to either beige, buff, or olive as it dries, and it becomes white when it is completely dry. The size, however, depends on the size of the food it has eaten, and it is rounded at both ends.
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What color is alligator pee?

Crocodilians seem to have no problem making a clear, yellowish pee-stream, as you can see in many hilarious YouTube videos of gators peeing on herpetologists and reporters, which I am putting at the bottom of this post so as not to break up the flow of the rant.
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What does alligator poop smell like?

It smelt like human poo/rotting flesh/phenomena. I recommend taking my word for it and not trying to ever experience this smell on purpose. Avoid at all costs! There are small alligators in the wild near where I live (we're friends).
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Do alligators poop and pee?

Second, like birds, alligators do not release urine separately from feces. Feces, which comes from the intestine and urine, which is filtered from the blood stream by the kidneys, are commingled in the cloaca. The commingled urine and feces are excreted as one mass.
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What does alligator taste like?

Alligator meat has been described as having a mild flavor and a firm texture. It tastes like quail, with a mildly fishy flavor, and is often chewy, depending on preparation.
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Why do crocodiles keep rocks in their stomach?

Scientists have long known that alligators, crocodiles, and other crocodylians frequently consume rocks on accident while attacking live prey or on purpose as a source of minerals, to get rid of parasites, or to help digest difficult meals — a behavior also practiced by some birds.
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Do alligators have balls?

Yes, alligators do have testicles! Alligators have a pair of gonads that produce sperm and function similarly to many other male animals. Alligator testicles are located inside their bodies, and can't be seen externally.
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What Colour is shark poop?

The plume appears yellow In the video, but Dove suspects the seawater is distorting the color. Shark poop is actually closer to green, Dove said.
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Do alligators like rotting meat?

Pig lungs, ''the only meat that floats,'' Mr. Hardwick said, are essential in hooking the alligators. It hovers, stinking, on the surface. Alligators prefer rotten meat, and this is well and truly rotted.
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Are blue alligators real?

Unfortunately, only Cobalt, the only known blue alligator in the world, survived to reach adulthood. "After working with gators for over 30 years, you would think that I had seen it all," said Tim Williams, dean of Gator Wrestlin' at Gatorland.
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Do alligators glow in the dark?

Like cats, an alligator has a tapetum lucidum at the back of each eye – a structure that reflects light back into the photoreceptor cells to make the most of low light. The colour of eyeshine differs from species to species. In alligators, it glows red – one good way to locate alligators on a dark night.
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Do alligators breath stink?

Ever wonder what an alligator's breath smells like? One of the perks of my research is I get to hang out within sneezing distance of the amazing reptiles and I can tell you from first hand experience that their breath smells like death.
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Can alligators come through the toilet?

In New York, stories of alligators in the sewers have proliferated since the 1930s, but they are probably just urban legends.
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Can you feed alligators marshmallows?

Yes, sometimes visitors give marshmallows to alligators, and the alligators do eat them. They are not toxic to them, but also not very healthy, so I would not recommend feeding them that.
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What happens if you feed a gator?

When you feed alligators, it causes the alligators to lose their natural fear of humans and to associate humans with food. Normally, alligators will avoid humans. But if an alligator has been fed by humans, they will be more likely to move toward humans and could potentially become aggressive.
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Can alligators cry?

The tears help keep the eye clean and lubricate the nictitating membrane, the translucent extra eyelid found in many animals. Kurt Vliet, a biologist in Florida, observed the incidence of crying among lunching caimans and alligators that had been trained to feed on land at an alligator farm.
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Do alligators bond with humans?

They generally will show trust for them and limit their aggressive behavior. We see this often in our reptiles, especially when it comes to food. These animals recognize who feeds them the most often and they anxiously await that person.
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Which state has the most alligators?

Louisiana and Florida have the largest alligator populations—there are more than one million wild alligators in each state.
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