An alligator is one of the largest reptiles. An alligator is usually a solitary animal. Their diet consists of whatever they can catch. Babies feed on insects, shrimp, tadpoles, frogs and fish, while adults will eat turtles, fish, raccoons, birds, and dead animals. A female will lay 25 to 60 eggs in a mound of vegetation. They are incubated by the warmth of the sun, and hatch in 9 weeks. Conservation efforts have saved an alligator from the brink of extinction, and its no longer an endangered species but this effort have to continue.