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• ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS

  
  

  

  
  

  L Y C A N T H R O P Y ▪ a form of madness involving the delusion of being or becoming an animal beneath the full moon, usually - but not limited to - a wolf, with correspondingly altered behavior. The disease is usually transferred through a venomous-like bite, where the infection itself begins with symptoms resembling a fever, slowly overwhelming.

  L O C K J A W ▪ Alligators are known for their ability to grab on and hold onto prey, even dragging it beneath the water to drown it. The largest recorded force value from a single bite was up to 3,700 pounds, but the usual American Alligator can only manage up to 2,500 pounds of bite force. Because of this force, any attempt at struggling may only dig a gator's jaws in deeper.

  D E A T H R O L L ▪ a spinning maneuver to subdue and dismember prey, involving rapid rotation about the longitudinal axis of the body. With respect to the body axis, the head and tail of the alligator is capable of bending an averaged 49.2° and 103.3°, respectively. The head, body and tail then rotate smoothly and freely around their individual axes of symmetry at 1.6 Hz.

  S C A L E A R M O R ▪ Bony plates inside the skin, called osteoderms or scutes, make the skin extremely hard to penetrate. When you look at the ridges on the back of an alligator, each little spike is made by a piece of bone in that section of skin. Bullets are known to affect the hide but not severely damage. It is advised to work with cross-bows or stone arrows when hunting the gator itself.