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1 16 Adams, A., Jr. 1985. A cattleman's backcountry Florida. University Presses of Florida, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. 48pp.
2 37 Adrian, M. 1967. The American alligator. Hastings House, New York, New York, USA. 63pp.
3 63 Allen, E. R. 1935. Some alligator secrets. Florida Conservator 1(10):10–11.
4 71 Allen, E. R. 1940. About Florida's alligators. Florida Game and Fish 1(6):7–9, 14.
5 153 Allen, R. 1969. Why save the alligator. Presented to Conservation 70s Inc. Environmental Legislative Workshop, Panel No. 4, Wildlife Resources, Homosassa Springs, Florida, USA. 5pp. [Printed by International Crocodilian Society, Silver Springs, Florida, USA.]
6 195 Anonymous. 1844. An alligatorical sketch. Number two of life in Florida. Knickerbocker [New-York Monthly Magazine] 23(April):361–367.
7 217 Anonymous. 1953. Gators can kill! Florida Outdoors 4(10):9–12.
8 355 Anonymous. 1987. Gators are snapping back. U.S. News & World Report 103(2):14.
9 426 Anonymous. 1991. Otter pops. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 3(1):6.
10 486 Anonymous. 1994. Alligator diets. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 13(3):21.
11 509 Anonymous. 1995. Gator hunts dogs. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 14(3):20.
12 7603 Aresco, M. J., and F. C. James. 2005. Ecological relationships of turtles in northern Florida lakes: a study of omnivory and the structure of a lake food web. Final report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahasee, Florida, USA. 66pp.
13 728 Bancroft, G. T., J. S. Godley, D. T. Gross, N. N. Rojas, D. A. Sutphen and R. W. McDiarmid. 1983. Large-scale operations management test of use of the white amur for control of problem aquatic plants. The herpetofauna of Lake Conway: species accounts. Final report. Miscellaneous Paper A-83-5, U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, CE, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. 304pp.
14 777 Barr, B. 1997. Everglades alligators thin. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 16(3):16.
15 778 Barr, B. 1997. Food habits of the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, in the southern Everglades. Dissertation, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. 243pp.
16 779 Barr, B. R. 1997. Differential rates of gastric clearance for prey items in the diet of Alligator mississippiensis, and their importance in dietary analysis. Abstract in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 45th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 26 June–2 July 1997, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
17 10285 Barr, B. R. 1997. Food habits of the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, in the southern Everglades. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
18 846 Bartlett, R. D. 2000. The mud snake and its allies. Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist 6(3):44–48.
19 879 Beck, W. H., Jr. 1948. An ecological study of the cold-blooded vertebrates of a north Florida lake. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 123pp.
20 912 Beltz, E. 1995. HerPET-POURRI. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 30:97–99.
21 914 Beltz, E. 1996. Herp news from around the world: catch of the day. Vivarium 7(5):10.
22 928 Beltz, E. 1997. Herp news from around the world: primitive gators meet civilized people. Vivarium 8(6):12–13.
23 932 Beltz, E. 1997. HerPET-POURRI: alligator news: the good, the bad and the ugly. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 32:138–139.
24 945 Beltz, E. 1999. Herp news from around the world: et tu, brute? Vivarium 10(6):10.
25 1000 Bickel, K. A. 1942. The mangrove coast: the story of the west coast of Florida. Coward-McCann, New York, New York, USA. 312pp.
26 8253 Bielefeld, R. R., and R. R. Cox, Jr. 2006. Survival and cause-specific mortality of adult female mottled ducks in east-central Florida. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:388–394.
27 1025 Blake, I. W. 1899. Our Florida alligator. Appleton's Popular Science Monthly 54:330–337.
28 1076 Bondavalli, C., and R. E. Ulanowicz. 1999. Unexpected effects of predators upon their prey: the case of the American alligator. Ecosystems 2:49–63.
29 1080 Borenstein, S. 1994. Scientists research what alligators eat before Everglades restoration begins. Reprinted in League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (January):25.
30 6987 Brueggen, J. 2002. Crocodilians eating their vegetables. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 21(3):16.
31 1355 Carbary, L. J. 1961. All about alligators. Science Digest 50(3):27–31.
32 1378 Carr, A. 1994. A Florida picnic. Pages 47–50 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
33 1380 Carr, A. 1994. Alligator country. Pages 104–124 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London,Connecticut, USA.
34 1385 Carr, A. 1994. Jubilee. Pages 25–39 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
35 1386 Carr, A. 1994. Living with an alligator. Pages 160–164 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
36 1395 Carr, A. 1999. Living with an alligator. Pages 77–82 in J. Lane and G. Thurmond, editors. The woods stretched for miles: new nature writing from the South. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, USA.
37 1417 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1967. Alligators, dragons in distress. National Geographic Magazine 131:132–148.
38 1421 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1976. Foreword: excerpts from the life of an alligator: a re-appraisal of "The Alligator's Life History." Pages v–x in E. A. McIlhenny. The alligator's life history. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology.
39 1444 Carter, W. H. 1980. Creatures and chronicles from Cross Creek. Atlantic, Tabor City, North Carolina, USA. 296pp.
40 1447 Carter, W. H. 1985. Return to Cross Creek. Atlantic, Tabor City, North Carolina, USA. 296pp.
41 1458 Caulfield, P. 1966. Alligator. Natural History 75(9):52–55.
42 1552 Cochran, D. M. 1944. Dangerous reptiles. Pages 275–324 in Annual Report Smithsonian Institution for 1943. Publication 3753.
43 9486 Cohen, M. J., and K. M. Enge. 2011. Iguana iguana (green iguana). Predation. Herpetological Review 42:430−431.
44 1622 Cory, C. B. 1895. Alligators and crocodiles. Pages 65–72 in Hunting and fishing in Florida. The Barta Press, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
45 1666 Crews, H. 1974. Poaching gators for fun and profit. Esquire 87(4):54, 58, 60, 62.
46 1696 Dahne, R. A. 1959. The one rule of keeping alligators in captivity is—don't. Florida Wildlife 12(10):20–21.
47 1740 Dean, C. A. 1907. Alligators I have met. Pages 73–75 in E. H. D. Pearse. 1954. Florida's vanishing era: from the journals of a young girl and her father, 1887 to 1910. [No publisher given]
48 1759 Delany, M. F. 1986. Bird bands recovered from American alligator stomachs in Florida. Bird Bander 11(3):92–94.
49 1760 Delany, M. F. 1987. What do alligators eat? Florida Wildlife 41(6):7–8.
50 1761 Delany, M. F. 1990. Late summer diets of juvenile American alligators. Journal of Herpetology 24:418–421.
51 1766 Delany, M. F., A. R. Woodward, and I. H. Kochel. 1988. Nuisance alligator food habits in Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 16:90–96.
52 9397 Delany, M. F., A. R. Woodward, R. A. Kiltie, and C. T. Moore. 2011. Mortality of American alligators attributed to cannibalism. Herpetologica 67:174−185.
53 1762 Delany, M. F., and C. L. Abercrombie, III. 1986. American alligator food habits in north-central Florida. Journal of Wildlife Management 50:348–353.
54 1765 Delany, M. F., S. B. Linda, and C. T. Moore. 1999. Diet and condition of American alligators in 4 Florida Lakes. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 53:375–389.
55 2289 Ernst, C. H., and R. W. Barbour. 1989. Snakes of eastern North America. George Mason University Press, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. 282pp.
56 2346 Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida. 1939. Florida: a guide to the southernmost state. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA. 600pp.
57 7816 Ferriter, A., B. Doren, C. Goodyear, D. Thayer, D. Burch, L. Toth, M. Bodle, J. Lane, D. Schmitz, P. Pratt, S. Snow, and K. Langeland. 2006. Chapter 9: the status of nonindigenous species in the South Florida environment. Pages 9-1–9-102 in 2006 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I, The South Florida Environment. South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
58 2353 Fichter, G. S. 1958. Living fossil of the swamp. Nature Magazine 51:13–16, 50.
59 2361 Fishman, G. 2000. Journeys through paradise: pioneering naturalists in the Southeast. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 306pp.
60 2406 Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1986. 1985–86 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 28pp.
61 2407 Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1987. 1986–87 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 32pp.
62 2425 Fogarty, M. J. 1974. The ecology of the Everglades alligator. Pages 367–373 in P. J. Gleason, editor. Environments of south Florida: present and past. Miami Geological Society Memoirs 2.
63 2430 Fogarty, M. J. 1984. The ecology of the Everglades alligator. Pages 211–218 in P. J. Gleason, editor. Environments of south Florida: present and past II. Miami Geological Society, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
64 2431 Fogarty, M. J., and J. D. Albury. 1968. Late summer foods of young alligators in Florida. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners 21:220–222.
65 8185 Garlock, M. 2006. Killer gators and crocs: gruesome encounters from across the globe. Lyons Press, Guilford, Connecticut, USA. 232pp.
66 2576 Garrick, L. D., and J. W. Lang. 1977. The alligator revealed. Natural History 86(6):53–61.
67 2715 Gorman, J. 1989. Return of a reptile. Sports Illustrated 70(10):50–52, 57–58, 60.
68 2770 Gross, W. H. 1991. Gator! Gator! Outdoor Life (January):58–59, 94–96.
69 8182 Grunwald, M. 2006. The swamp: the Everglades, Florida, and the politics of paradise. Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA. 464pp.
70 2883 Harris, S. 1980. Crocodiles and alligators. Franklin Watts, New York, New York, USA.
71 2893 Hartley, W., and E. Hartley. 1977. The alligator: king of the wilderness. Thomas Nelson, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 175pp.
72 2982 Henshall, J. A. 1987. Sport in Florida (1886). Pages 325–329 in F. Oppel and T. Meisel, editors. Tales of Old Florida. Castle, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA.
73 3028 Hightower, J. 1951. Gators I've known. Outdoor Life 108(6):28–29, 64–67.
74 3123 Hoole, W. S., editor. 1974. East Florida in 1834: letters of Dr. John Durkee. Florida Historical Quarterly 52:294–308.
75 3132 Hornaday, W. T. 1914. The American natural history: a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Volume 4. Reptiles, amphibians and fishes. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, USA.
76 3147 Hubbard, C. C. 1876. The Florida alligator; his customs, capture and care. C. C. Hubbard, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. 49pp.
77 3161 Hunn, M. 1972. Jumping 'gators. Florida Wildlife 26(1):14–15.
78 3183 Hutt, A. P., Jr. 1967. The American alligator. National Parks Magazine 41(243):14–17.
79 3248 Jackson, D. R. 1984. And yet another threat! Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of the Gopher Tortoise Council 4(12):5.
80 3249 Jackson, D. R. 1984. Predation on turtles by the American alligator: ecological and morphological correlates. Page 135 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Combined Meeting of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 28 July–3 August 1984, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
81 3312 Jacobson, S. K. 1983. Alligators: exploited, feared, threatened. Florida Naturalist 56(1):12–13.
82 7601 Justice, L. A. 2003. Gator vs. python. National Examiner (February 25):4–5.
83 3461 Kellogg, R. 1929. The habits and economic importance of alligators. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin No. 147, Washington, D.C. 36pp.
84 3465 Kennedy, S. 1942. Palmetto country. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, New York, USA. 340pp.
85 3467 Kensella, J. M. 1982. Alligator predation on round-tailed muskrats. Florida Field Naturalist 10:79.
86 3506 Kinsella, J. M. 1982. Alligator predation on round-tailed muskrats. Florida Field Naturalist 10:79.
87 9402 Ladd, S. 2011. A retrospective analysis of the potential environmental stressors responsible for the decline of the natural populations of the Florida apple snail (Pomacea paludosa) in the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. M.S. Thesis, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. 200pp.
88 3702 LeBuff, C. R., Jr. 1957. Observations on captive and wild North American crocodilians. Herpetologica 13:25–28.
89 7993 Levin, T. 2003. Liquid land: a journey through the Florida Everglades. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, USA. 286pp.
90 3772 Lewis, T. E., and K. J. Irwin. 2001. Geographic distribution: Macrochelys temminckii (alligator snapping turtle). Herpetological Review 32:274.
91 3807 Lodge, T. E. 1994. The Everglades handbook: understanding the ecosystem. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Florida, USA. 228pp.
92 7900 MacDonald-Beyers, K. and R. F. Labisky. 2005. Influence of flood waters on survival, reproduction, and habitat use of white-tailed deer in the Florida Everglades. Wetlands 25: 659–666.
93 3909 Mahoney, L. T. 1991. Gator! Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California, USA. 80pp.
94 8910 Martin, J. A., M. McKinney, W. E. Palmer, and T. C. Hines. 2008. American alligator predation on adult northern bobwhite. Florida Field Naturalist 36:39–40.
95 3950 Martin, T. W., and A. R. Hight. 1977. Alligator food habits and their relationship to Everglade kite habitat productivity. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Unpublished Report)
96 4016 McCarthy, K. M., compiler. 1998. Alligator tales. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, USA. 170pp.
97 4070 McIntyre, T. 1983. Gone gatorin. Sports Afield (July):45–47, 104–107.
98 4412 Moore, J. C. 1953. Alligator lore for Johnnie. Everglades Natural History 1:137–138.
99 7868 Morgan, D. 2006. Predator or protector? Florida Wildlife 59(3):50–52.
100 4506 Murphy, J. M. 1987. Alligator shooting in Florida (1899). Pages 353–364 in F. Oppel and T. Meisel, editors. Tales of Old Florida. Castle, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA.
101 4629 Neill, W. T. 1971. The last of the ruling reptiles: alligators, crocodiles, and their kin. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA. 486pp.
102 4633 Neill, W. T., and E. R. Allen. 1954. Algae on turtles: some additional considerations. Ecology 35:581–584.
103 4668 Newell, D. M. 1976. The alligator is far from endangered. Field & Stream 80(12):66, 68–70.
104 9960 Nifong, J. C., A. E. Rosenblatt, N. A. Johnson, W. Barichivich, B. R. Silliman, and M. R. Heithaus. 2012. American alligator digestion rate of blue crabs and its implications for stomach contents analysis. Copeia 2012:419–423.
105 9919 Nifong, J. C., and B. R. Silliman. 2013. Impacts of a large-bodied, apex predator (Alligator mississippiensis Daudin 1801) on salt marsh food webs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 440:185–191.
106 9547 Nifong, J. C., M. G. Frick, and S. F. Eastman. 2011. Putative predation and scavenging of two sea turtle species by the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, in coastal southeastern United States. Herpetological Review 42:511.
107 4701 Norman, G. 1980. Gators. Esquire 94(4):112–114.
108 4741 O'Keefe, M. T. 1996. Great adventures in Florida. Menasha Ridge Press, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 266pp.
109 4742 O'Keefe, M. T. 1996. Seasonal guide to the natural year: a month by month guide to natural events: Florida with Georgia and Alabama coasts. Fulcrum, Golden, Colorado, USA. 342pp.
110 4848 Partridge, S. W. 1936. Alligators in Florida. Outdoor Florida 1(5):3, 18.
111 4879 Peoples, J. C., D. C. Sisson, and D. W. Speake. 1995. Mortality of wild turkey poults in Coastal Plain forests. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 49:448–453.
112 4886 Perkins, R. N., Jr. 1955. Alligator eats alligator. Florida Naturalist 28:76–77.
113 4891 Perry, W. L. 1859. Scenes in a surveyor's life; or a record of hardships and dangers encountered, and amusing scenes which occurred, in the operations of a party of surveyors in south Florida. C. Drew's Book and Job Printing Office, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. 176pp.
114 4937 Portier, M. 1947. From Pensacola to St. Augustine in 1827. A journey of the Rt. Rev. Michael Portier [translated by J. E. Cahalan]. Florida Historical Quarterly 26:135–166. [reprinted from Historical Records and Studies of the United States Catholic Historical Society 2(2), August 1901]
115 4977 Pritchard, P. C. H. 1977. The alligator: disgusting monster of our swamps. Florida Naturalist 50(1):2–8.
116 5044 Quincy, P. A. 1979. Alligator extravaganza. Florida Naturalist 52(2):18–19.
117 5091 Reid, J., and R. K. Bonde. 1990. Alligator mississippiensis (American alligator). Diet. Herpetological Review 21:59.
118 5109 Ricciuti, E. R. 1972. The American alligator: its life in the wild. Harper and Row, New York, New York, USA. 67pp.
119 7234 Rice, A. N. 2004. Diet and condition of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in three central Florida lakes. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 89pp.
120 7686 Rice, A. N., J. P. Ross, A. G. Finger, and R. Owen. 2005. Application and evaluation of a stomach flushing technique for alligators. Herpetological Review 36:400–401.
121 8310 Rice, A. N., J. P. Ross, A. R. Woodward, D. A. Carbonneau, and H. F. Percival. 2007. Alligator diet in relation to alligator mortality on Lake Griffin, FL. Southeastern Naturalist 6:97–110.
122 7806 Rice, K. G., and F. J. Mazzotti. 2005. American alligator ecology and monitoring for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. Cir 1478, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 6pp.
123 7697 Roberts, L. 2006. Alligator vs. python. Florida Wildlife 59(1):47–49.
124 9915 Rosenblatt, A. 2013. Factors influencing movements and foraging ecology of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in a dynamic subtropical coastal ecosystem. Dissertation, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
125 9400 Rosenblatt, A. E., and M. R. Heithaus. 2011. Does variation in movement tactics and trophic interactions among American alligators create habitat linkages? Journal of Animal Ecology 80:786−798.
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127 5234 Rudloe, J. 1982. Master of my lake. Audubon Magazine 84(4):5–8.
128 5253 Safford, W. E. 1919. Natural history of Paradise Key and the near-by Everglades of Florida. Pages 377–434 in Smithsonian Report for 1917. [Publication No. 2508, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.]
129 5279 Sand, G. X. 1971. The Everglades today: endangered wilderness. Four Winds Press, New York, New York, USA. 191pp.
130 5294 Sargeant, F. 1982. Jaws…that are real! Outdoor Life 169(2):54–55, 82, 85.
131 5327 Schmidt, K. P. 1922. The American alligator. Field Museum of Natural History Leaflet No. 3:25–38.
132 5452 Shrake, E. 1975. Getting swamped by 'gators. Sports Illustrated 42(3):26–28.
133 5455 Silverstone, P. A. 1972. Final report of a study of the behavior of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) at the Fort Pierce, Florida Bureau of the Smithsonian Institution. Unpublished Report to Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. 55pp.
134 5457 Simmons, G., and L. Ogden. 1998. Gladesmen: gator hunters, moonshiners, and skiffers. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 197pp.
135 5469 Sleeper, B. 1996. Beneath the blackwater: alligators. NorthWord Press, Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA. 127pp.
136 7792 Snow, R. W., L. Oberhofer, and F. J. Mazzotti. 2006. Alligator mississippiensis (American alligator). Feeding. Herpetological Review 37:80–81.
137 5530 Snyder, N. F. R., and H. A. Snyder. 1971. Defenses of the Florida apple snail Pomacea paludosa. Behaviour 40:176–214.
138 5574 Steel, R. 1989. Crocodiles. Christopher Helm, London, United Kingdom. 198pp.
139 5675 Stowe, H. B. 1873. Palmetto-leaves. J. R. Osgood and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 321pp.
140 5680 Strimple, P. 1996. Reptile news and trivia: dog-eating gator. Reptiles Magazine 4(3):30.
141 5684 Strimple, P. 1998. Reptile news and trivia: lucky dogs. Reptiles Magazine 6(1):8.
142 6421 Sunquist, F., M. Sunquist, and L. Beletsky. 2002. Florida: the ecotravellers' wildlife guide. Academic Press, New York, New York, USA. 532pp.
143 7651 Swiman, E., M. Hostetler, M. Main, and S. Webb Miller. 2005. Living with alligators: a Florida reality. Fact Sheet WEC 203, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 5pp.
144 10012 Tardona, D. R. 2013. American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) predation on a foraging green heron (Butorides virescens). Florida Field Naturalist 41:86–87.
145 5804 Thornton, D. W. 1977. Reminiscences on the indigo. Florida Naturalist 50(2):18–19.
146 5859 Toops, C. M. 1979. The alligator: monarch of the Everglades. Everglades Natural History Association, Homestead, Florida, USA. 63pp.
147 5896 Truslow, F. K., F. G. Vosburgh, and O. Imboden. 1967. Threatened glories of Everglades National Park. National Geographic Magazine 132:508–553.
148 5942 Usina, F. C., and W. I. Dyrsdale. 1949. Alligator!: a review of the life and habits of the American alligator with added chapters on crocodiles, Galapagos tortoises, African ostriches and alligators in motion pictures. St. Augustine Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, Florida, USA. 32pp.
149 5982 Vollbrecht, J. L. 1946. Alligator college. Florida Outdoors 1(9):6–7, 24.
150 5983 Vollbrecht, J. L. 1947. From swamp to swank. Nature Magazine 40:237–240. 276.
151 5991 Wack, H. W. 1901. The sportsman's elysium of the South. Part II. Game animals of Florida. Field and Stream and American Angler 5:731–737.
152 6012 Walls, J. G. 1995. Corn and red rat snakes. T.F.H., Neptune City, New Jersey, USA. 64pp.
153 6036 Warren, F. B. 1905. The Florida alligator: information regarding an unappreciated saurian. Field and Stream 9:255–258.
154 6042 Waterman, C. 1982. Gators vs. fishermen. Florida Wildlife 36(1):43–45.
155 8139 Weidensaul, S. 2005. Return to wild America: a yearlong search for the continent's natural soul. North Point Press, New York, New York, USA. 394pp.
156 6148 Williams, J. L. 1962. The Territory of Florida or sketches of the topography, civil and natural history, of the country, the climate, and the Indian tribes, from the first discovery to the present time. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1837 edition, with an introduction by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.] University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 304pp.
157 6149 Williams, J. L. 1976. A view of West Florida. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1827 edition with an introduction and index by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.] University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 178pp.
158 6304 Woodward, A. 1993. Developing Florida's Alligator Harvest Program: the experimental harvests. Gatortales, The Florida Alligator Trappers Association Newsletter 1(2):4.
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