The alligators would escape and find their way into the New York sewer system where they started reproducing, grew to huge sizes and now strike fear into sewer workers.

短吻鳄会逃跑，找到进入纽约下水道系统的路并开始在那里繁殖，长得巨大，现在还使得下水道工人感到害怕。

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There are numerous signs warning people not to feed the alligators in the area.

有很多标识警告人们不要在这个区域喂这些短吻鳄。

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But there is no guarantee that the culture of the organization doesn't revert to fighting the alligators when the time crunch hits.

但是这不能保证当时间已经迫近时，这个组织的文化不会反过来与美洲鳄鱼进行搏斗。

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We will cut that state off from the Confederacy, and give it to the alligators!"

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The Everglades is the only place on Earth where fresh water alligators and saltwater crocodiles live in the same area.

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Louisiana is the nation's leading producer of shrimp, oysters,crabs,crawfish and alligators.

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So focused on fighting off the alligators and mosquitos out to eat them that they long ago forgot their mission was to create new markets with new products that could carry them out of the low-growth swamp.

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When someone started in on his experience chasing albino alligators through the New York sewers, I decided it was time to stagger off to bed.

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For instance, the San Diego Zoo received two female Chinese alligators from a zoological park in Florida in early July and wants to start breeding the critically endangered species if they can get a male Chinese alligator next year.

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