关于扬子鳄的英文介绍

The Chinese Alligator or Yangtze Alligator is native only to China. It is smaller than the other Alligator species, the American Alligator, growing to an average of 1.5 m (5 ft).

While its appearance is very close and similar to its cousin the, American Alligator, it has few differences. One obvious difference is that the Chinese Alligator is quite small. Unlike the American Alligator, the Chinese Alligator is fully armored, even the belly is armored in
which only features on few certain crocodilians.

While it originally ranged through much of China, this species' wild habitat has been reduced to little more than a few ponds containing a small number of animals along the lower Yangtze River in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui. Its population reduction has been mostly due to conversion of its habitat to agricultural use. Poisoning of rats, which the alligators then eat, has also been blamed for their decline. In the past decade, very few w