ct the American alligator, and some local "farms" have helped the species recover in a minor way, the American alligator still remains on the endangered species list (Cox 54).
The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is far less common than the American alligator and therefore more endangered. The American alligator can also be potentially dangerous (Alderton 29). One incident involving the American crocodile occurred in 1925 in Biscayne Bay, Florida. In that case, a land surveyor shot a crocodile and thought the animal dead. However, one of the surveyor's assistants kicked the reptile, which revived it. The crocodile then swung its tail around, knocked the assistant to the ground, and then killed him (Alderton 30). The crocodile was later taken to Ross Allen's famous Reptile Institute, where it died many years later in a fight with a big alligator housed in a neighboring enclosure, at age 65.
Only a few other attacks by the American crocodile have been documented, and they occurred in very rural areas where women and children were washing in r
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