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Are American alligators rare

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

They are not rare anymore, though they were at one point endangered. It is no longer even a threatened species, and is doing just fine in the southeastern United States. There are estimated to be up to 2 million in Louisiana alone.

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