This document provides information about alligators in 4 sections: appearance, appetite, habitat, and interesting facts. It describes alligators' armored bodies that can grow up to 15 feet long and weigh 1000 pounds, their diet of raccoons, muskrats, birds, turtles and snakes, their habitat of freshwater rivers, swamps and marshes in the southeastern US, and additional facts that alligators are related to crocodiles and can look like logs to blend in.