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Some Young: Gestation takes 16 days; 7-15 in litter; young born pink, naked, and blind. Do not disturb young or mother for at least a week after birth; if disturbed mother will either kill and eat the young or neglect them and allow them to die. After 3 weeks, remove young from mother; otherwise, mother fights with them and often kills them. Sexes should be separated before young reach maturity at 43 days.
Food changes as creature grows; young feed almost entirely on aquatic insects and crustaceans; later take frogs, snakes, and fishes; then fishes, young pigs, muskrats, and Some young waterfowl; adult takes fishes, pigs, and larger animals that stray too close to water's edge, such as cows, calves, and deer.
Voice: Both young and old alligators hiss; female grunts like a pig in calling young; young make moaning sound, with mouth closed.
Ovoviviparous snakes produce the young fully formed but tightly coiled in a thin, transparent membrane. Some youngtimes this membrane bursts during the process of birth and the young appear to crawl from the mother's body. Usually the membrane is broken by the use of the temporary egg tooth when the young snake struggles to straighten out.
When the young are born alive, the snake is said to be viviparous.
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