A friend who is a marine biologist was telling me about a trip he took to an Australian zoo. They had a pond containing American Alligators. The zoo attendant went inside and petted the alligators. When he asked why they didn’t have Australian alligators called Salties in the zoo, the attendant took him to another pond and as they approached the gate, the Salties inside came forward and tried to attack.
I thought alligators existed only in the Americas.