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Yangtze Alligator

Yangtze alligator is a unique and rare animal in China, which is mainly distributed in some areas in Anhui Province, Zhejiang Province and Jiangxi Province. For a long time, due to its ferocious habit and sometimes attacking the poultry as well as its "ugly" face, the people usually think it is a harmful animal and capture and massacre it, which results in its rareness. The Yangtze alligator is an endangered reptile. China has already listed it as the National Level I Protected Animal. The Yangtze alligator is a carnivorous animal with a lifetime about 70 – 80 years. It hibernates in winter and will be transferred to the glass house in winter time while in pools in summer.