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Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter. Learn more. However, after 10 years, a female gator will have reached full size 9 feet , and a male alligator's growth rate will slow considerably, growing less than an inch per year. For example: A male alligator that is 30 years old would be close to 11 feet long, but by the time it reaches 50 years old 20 years later , it will have only grown less than two feet.
This means many of the largest gators in the Atchafalaya Basin most not exceeding 13 or 14 feet were being born around the same time that man was landing on the moon! Knowing what you now know, looking back at the graphic, how old do you think the largest alligator on record an astonishing 19'-2" must have been?!
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