Alligator Gar

THE LEGEND OF ALLIGATOR GAR 

It's a beast from the age of the dinosaurs — a monster with razor sharp teeth, armoured scales, and a nasty reputation: the alligator gar. The alligator gar is one of North America’s most unusual fish and one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. It can grow up to 10 feet long and live up to 50 years.

The Alligator gar has two rows of teeth on upper jaw like are needles, they will latch on or dig into their prey. The alligator gar has outlived the dinosaurs because it has some exceptional survival tools.

The alligator gar can breathe air from the surface allowing them to live and marches where oxygen levels are low. Alligator gar scales are rock hard. The whole back of this fish is covered with armor-like scales. Each scale is about as thick as a quarter and tough as nails.

The female alligator gar can produce over than 100,000 eggs bit the quantity of these eggs not unusual. The eggs contain that remarkable (a deadly toxin).

Many people believed that the gar gobble up highly prized sport fish like bass and redfish, so when they find a gar at the end of their line, they kill it — even if they have no use for the fish. The legend about gar wiping out sport fish and taking bites out of humans is myths. Alligator gars are opportunistic feeders, not blood-thirsty monsters. They want to spend the least amount of energy as they possibly can to consume their food.

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