I’ve Recently Become Interested In Legends Of Avantrist, But The Problem Is I Work With Alligators

I’ve recently become interested in legends of avantrist, but the problem is I work with alligators and am very familiar with them and what they look like so every single Kremy art I see I’m like, “you’re no alligator you fuckin imposter…”

For anyone interested, here’s some miscellaneous alligator facts

Alligators have five toes on their front limbs and four toes on their hind limbs. Only the first three toes on each foot has claws.

Despite common media depictions, alligators are NOT green. They are black, dark grey, dark brown, and in VERY rare occasions, white or yellow, though these ones only survive in captivity. This is actually one of the ways to distinguish them from crocodiles, because crocs are much lighter in color, being a brownish green, tan, or a lighter grey. Alligators also loose their juvenile stripes at around 3-4 years old, while most crocodiles keep them their whole lives.

Alligators have thousands of tiny black dots on their face that kinda resemble a five o’clock shadow. No, it’s not facial hair or blackheads, they’re actually integumentary sensory organs that sense movement in the water around them and make their faces extreamly sensitive to touch.

Alligators do have ears, they’re just a little hard to notice. It’s the slit behind the eye.

Alligators have no sense of personal space. They will crawl all over each other trying to get the best sunning spot. It’s like they see other alligators as big rocks that sometimes move. (At work, we call them cuddle piles)

Despite how similar they look, alligators and crocodiles are not closely related. They diverged from one another around 100 to 90 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. For reference, the last common ancestor of all big cats lived 10 million years ago.

Alligators have tongues, but they are attached and can’t move like ours.

Mama alligators are very protective of their babies and protect them for a year after they hatch before ditching them.

Alligators grow about 6 inches a year until they reach maturity at 10 to 12 years old. By this point the gator is about 6 feet long and will continue to grow through its entire life, though at a much slower rate.

Alligators are cannibalistic and won’t hesitate to eat a smaller alligator.

How do you tell the difference between a male and female alligator? Just put your finger in its cloaca. If something pokes you, it’s a male.

Alligators and all other crocodilians are more closely related to birds than any other member of the class reptilia. If birds aren’t reptiles, then neither are crocodilians.