\nAlligators in southern Florida typically develop more slowly than those of northern Florida. A suggested reason is metabolic cost.<\/p>\n
\nBeing cold-blooded, an alligator’s metabolism increases with the surrounding temperature. Therefore, an alligator in a hotter environment consumes more energy than it would in a cooler one: to a cold-blooded creature, higher temperature means higher metabolic cost.<\/p>\n
\nPerhaps because of higher metabolic cost, the alligators of southern Florida, compared with their northern counterparts, have less spare energy to develop, so they do so more slowly.\n<\/p>\n
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