If alligators lay an average of 40 eggs a mating season, how come we don’t have an alligator epidemic? Rabbits only have 12 offspring by comparison!!

Question

Seriously. Some gators can lay NINETY EGGS! How is this not a problem? How does nature handle this? Why aren’t we up to our knees in big scaly bellowing carnivores?

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Answer 1

baby alligators are tender and tasty, can’t defend themselves very well, and everyone knows it. they are basically a quick and easy meal for anything that finds them until they get big enough to be a threat to other predators. out of a group of ninety, the vast majority will never reach that stage.