Alligator ParkMind the tail.
Two hundred million years of reptile engineering, explained by a gator in a decent mood. Wander the exhibits, poke the animals, take the quiz.
↑ Click me. I have opinions.
Eight halls, one very old reptile
The Exhibit Hall
Each exhibit is a short guided walk: a few chapters, real photography, something hands-on to fiddle with, and a trivia round at the end of every chapter. All eight halls are open.
Living Fossils
Armour, teeth, night-vision eyes and a bite that outclasses most of the animal kingdom. How an alligator is built, from scutes to slit pupils.
Gator or Croc?
Snout shape, tooth placement, salt glands and temper. Learn the tells, then sort eight photographs before the timer in your head runs out.
Swamp Sweet Swamp
Where alligators live, the gator holes they dig for everyone else, and the near-extinction they climbed back out of.
Supper Time
Ambush tactics, the death roll, and why a jaw that clamps at 2,000 psi can be held shut with two hands. Includes a reaction test you will lose.
Egg to Eleven Feet
Mound nests, mothers that carry their babies in their teeth, and a nest simulator where you set the temperature and watch it decide the sex of the clutch.
Gator Talk
Head-slaps, dominance hierarchies, congregations that are less friendship than tolerance — and a bellow your browser synthesises on the spot.
Boots, Bags & Blackened Tail
Farming, hides, meat, taxidermy and CITES paperwork — and the awkward truth that regulated use helped save the species. Click the animal to see what each part becomes.
Tall Tales & Record Books
The 15-foot-9 Alabama record, the 19-foot claims nobody can verify, a genetics simulator for ghost-white gators, and a Truth-o-Meter for every myth you've been told.
Hover them. Click them. They react.
Meet the Regulars
One cohesive hand-drawn cast, drawn as scalable vector art so the same characters can host an exhibit, guard a printable, or star in a game sprite without ever going fuzzy.
Each character ships with hover and click variants — the same building blocks the games will animate.
Print it, hand it out, colour it in
Printables
Free PDFs for classrooms and kitchen tables. Every sheet comes in two versions — grades 3–5 and grades 6–8 — with the answer key on the last page for whoever is marking. Bold line art, so they still work on a school copier.
Gator or Croc? Field Card
The five tells, side by side, plus a field test. Fold it in half and it fits a pocket.
Life-Size Tooth Chart
Four teeth printed at true size, from hatchling to twelve-footer. Bring a ruler.
Six activities, twelve sheets
Field card · tooth chart · two mazes · matching · crossword
“One of the mazes is mine. I get home to the mudhole at the end of it, so no funny business.”
In the workshop
Games
Proper games are in the nest incubating — playable right here in the browser, no download, no account, free like everything else on this site.
No release dates yet — they hatch as they are finished.
Something is stirring in there.
Learn something, then prove it
Test Your Knowledge
Every chapter ends with a trivia round — 101 questions across all eight halls. Answer as you go and you climb a rank, from Fresh Hatchling all the way up to Head Ranger. Here is the engine, loaded with a sampler pulled from across the park.
Ranks to climb
Fresh Hatchling → Bank Sitter → Marsh Runner → Head Ranger
101 questions
No memorising your way through
Questions and answers both shuffle on every single run.
32 rounds
“The quiz shuffles the questions and the answers every time, so nobody can just memorise ‘always pick B’.”
Visitor services
Go See a Real One
Reading about them is one thing. Twelve alligator parks, working ranches and swamp tours across seven southern states — with addresses, phone numbers and a map you can click by state.
Every entry was checked against the park’s own website or an official tourism listing, and each card says which.
The point of all this
A species that came back
In the 1950s and 60s the American alligator was hunted hard for its hide and squeezed out of its wetlands. In 1967 it was listed as endangered. By the late 1980s it was taken off the list — recovered.
Today the IUCN lists it as Least Concern, and roughly five million of them are out there doing gator things. Its cousin the Chinese alligator, reduced to a tiny remnant population in the Yangtze basin, is having a much harder time.