It's somewhat subtle, but if you look for a bit you might see it 'coming out of your screen'. (Some trickery with an artificial depth of field involved.)

Adult females tend to be 2.6m (8.2 feet) in length Males grow approximately to 3.4 m (11.2 feet) feet in length. An adult alligator tens to weight in at around 360 kg (800 pounds).

One way to tell alligators and crocodiles apart is that the crocodiles skull and jaws are narrower than an alligators. Alligators have a wide, U-shaped snout, crocodiles have a longer, V-shaped one. Also many species of crocodiles live in salt water, whereas alligators are freshwater reptiles.

Alligators in the wild are believed to live 35 - 50 years. It's said that they have survived almost unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, which is a rather good track record.

They eat fish, snails and other invertebrates, birds, frogs, and mammals that come to the water's edge. As the alligator grows, so do the prey animals it goes after. Grown Alligators tend to hunt by waiting for animals to wander close to them and then lunging or dashing at them.

Once on the verge of extinction, the American alligator has made a remarkable recovery, and is no longer endangered except in certain areas.

Close-up on the alligator here, http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11484076/