Love in the swamps....It's courtship season in the swamps for the American Alligator and Florida's State Reptile is on the move and looking for love. Male alligators can be quite romantic, singing booming, cypress-shaking songs, offering back rubs and doing something called the water dance. Males will get in the water and with their back just under the surface and their head and tail arched up, they will bellow. The sound roars through their body and causes the bones in the back called osteoderms to shake. This in turn causes the water at the surface to shake, creating a spectacular fountain show for the female. Additionally the male will place his clawed paw on the females back and hold her under water for as long as he can. Well, they're mostly romantic. Gators are more territorial at this time of the year and as always should not be approached.

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