“An alligator replaces its teeth so often that they can go through 3,000 teeth over the course of their life,” the UGA Coastal Ecology Lab wrote.
By Mark Price The Charlotte Observer and
A mystery is afoot in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, and it involves fully grown alligators who are missing a lot of their teeth.in the notoriously murky waters that don’t have many left. A photo shared April 4 by the University of Georgia Coastal Ecology Lab shows one such gator with only three or four easily visible teeth in its gums.Plus, there’s something creepy about the idea of gators trying to gum something to death.“We hypothesize it is either another effect of the tannic water or they are not getting enough of a key nutrient in their diet.
Many of the alligators in Okefenokee also have badly stained teeth, which the lab suspects is due to the tannic acid in the
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