Florida Crocodile Map

During the breeding and nesting seasons adults outside of key largo and turkey point use the exposed shoreline of florida bay.

Florida crocodile map. Like alligators crocodiles rely on external sources of heat to regulate their body temperature. Orinoco crocodiles native to south america s orinoco river are freshwater crocodiles. A map of where nuisance alligators have been removed includes all areas of the state from pensacola to the keys. Crocodile lake national wildlife refuge the crocodile lake national wildlife refuge located in north key largo is a 6 700 acre reserve established in 1980 to protect critical breeding and nesting habitat of what few crocs remained at that time less than 400 in all of florida.

A basking crocodile may be surprised by an approaching person and quickly and noisily enter the water. One 1 species of alligator three 3 species of caiman including three 3 valid subspecies one 1 species of melosuchus two 2 species of paleosuchus and four 4 species of. In 2014 10 or so people were scouring everglades national park at the southern tip of florida in an attempt to capture a crocodile. The habitat of the american crocodile consists largely of coastal areas.

Massive 12 foot gator pulled out of lake osborne. The american crocodile is found primarily in mangrove swamps and along low energy mangrove lined bays creeks and inland swamps kushlan and mazzotti 1989. In florida patterns of crocodile habitat use shift seasonally. Suitable year round crocodile habitat was lost with the development of the upper florida keys.

Species range maps by region click on map for enlargement north and south america contain eleven 11 distinct crocodilian species not including subspecies. Someone else had caught this particular reptile once before. Two years later in 2014 a team of 10 researchers and university professors of the fort lauderdale research and education center scoured the everglades to do the same. The refuge is closed to the public.

The american crocodile crocodylus acutus is a species of crocodilian found in the neotropics it is the most widespread of the four extant species of crocodiles from the americas with populations present from south florida and the coasts of mexico to as far south as peru and venezuela. The first documented appearance of the nile crocodile in florida was back in 2012 when someone caught it and had to release it back into the wild due to lack of a proper permit. Actually all the endangered crocodiles on this map the cuban crocodile siamese crocodile philippine crocodile and tomistoma are primarily freshwater species.