There is something about alligators and their kin that has always caught the imagination, ever since the early Spanish explorers sent home tall tales about these grotesque creatures of the Florida swamps. Actually they are fascinating in their own right, aside from the stories. The alligator is one of the few reptiles with a voice - even the very young ones can bark, and the huge old ones sound like foghorns. No other reptiles care for their young so well and so long as alligators. How they swim and breathe, where they live, the laying and hatching of their eggs, what they eat and how they get it, are only a few of the facts about alligators and crocodiles told and pictured here.

Dr. Zim's gift for making scientific information both interesting and easy to understand has been proved throughout the entire series of these invaluable books, of which this is the eleventh. 

From the dust jacket