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.
Learn something, then prove it
Games & Printables
Every chapter ends with a trivia round — 94 questions across all eight halls. Get them all and you earn a rank, from Fresh Hatchling up to Head Ranger. Here is the engine, loaded with a sampler pulled from across the park.
Printable: Gator or Croc field card
A fold-in-half pocket card with the five tells. Laminate it and hand it to a class of nine-year-olds.
Coming in phase 2
Printable: Life-size tooth chart
Trace and cut 80 teeth. Chaotic. Educational. Parents have been warned.
Coming in phase 2
“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.