FillRevolutionary900 t1_iwui6im wrote
Reply to comment by Interplanetary-Goat in I was recently quite blown away on learning that alligators can regrow their tails. I looked up whether crocodiles can do it too and found that they can't. Any insight of why this is the case (i.e. why crocs can't do it)? by [deleted]
That's an interesting possibility, but the only issue is we don't have any concrete evidence on how or why predatory pressures are different on young alligators compared to young crocodiles (though I realise everything we are discussing here is conjecture anyway). According to what we know today, both alligators and crocodiles are vulnerable to predators as juveniles.
I have my own hypothesis, which I've added in a comment under this post just now. Lmk if you have any thoughts.
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