Chinese Alligator

The Chinese Alligator is a member of the alligator family that lives in China. They are in danger of extinction because of extermination (farmers consider them a menace to their rice paddies) and because of habitat pollution from agricultural chemicals.

The Chinese Alligator lives in swamps and ponds in the lower basin of the Yangtze River, which is the last stretch of the Chang River in China. They like to eat pond snails and other shell fish. They may also catch fish and birds. The Chinese Alligator may grow to two meters in length, but it does not attack humans. Chinese books written more than 2000 years ago describe them as "harmless to humans".
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