Comment by TheSpiceIsLife
5 years ago
Alligator energy.
I hadn’t heard this term before, and just read that an alligator can store up to 60% of the energy it gets from food as fat, mostly stored in the tail.
A large adult in average condition could survive two years or more without food!
https://books.google.com/books/about/Alligators.html?id=0UDL...
This ability might have helped them survive the KT extinction, when food was scarce.