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Field Frame Friday: Alligator dances are better than middle school dances.

Posted by The Ethogram on

The American Alligator’s (Alligator mississippiensis) courtship involves nighttime “alligator dances” where the alligators will swim in pairs for hours before deciding whether or not to mate. Now that’s what I call a nice first date!

[Photo by Grace Davis in Barro Colorado Island, Panama; Caption by Maggie Creamer]

Reference

Vliet, K. A. (1989). Social displays of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis). American Zoologist, 29(3), 1019-1031.

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