Alligator sinensis | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Currently, Chinese alligators reside naturally within the lower Yangtze River basin, located along the central Pacific coast of China. Historically, when populations were more numerous, they spread over much greater areas. Literature cites this species as early as the third century A.D., including reference that it lived in other areas of China and possibly even Korea. It was estimated in 1998 that the geographic range of Chinese alligators had decreased by over ninety percent in the past twenty years. (Mertz, 2003[1]; Behler and Behler, 1998[2]; Neill, 1971[3])

Chinese alligators live in a subtropical, temperate region. They live in wetlands and swamps, ponds, lakes, as well as freshwater rivers and streams. (Mertz, 2003[4])