Alligator Vs Crocodile Essay

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Crocodiles and alligator two creatures that share many similarities. But what are the real differences between them? Sometime people do not recognize how to differentiate an alligator from a crocodile. Although they are reptiles, they have dissimilitude in the family, in the shape of the nose and the position of the teeth.
The first difference is that alligators and crocodiles are from distinct families. There are three groups of crocodilians: the alligatoridae, which includes the alligator and the caimans, the crocodylidae, which includes the “true” crocodiles, and the gavialidae, which contains only the gharial.
The easiest way of telling apart crocodiles from alligators is to look at their noses. Alligators have a wide “U” shaped, rounded

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