Sort of a cool (ha) story–18 gators at the Swamp Park in North Carolina showed off their brumation skills when temps dropped below freezing.
From the article:
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https://wcti12.com/news/local/chilly-gators-poke-heads-above-ice-to-cope-with-bitter-cold
I do the same thing with the blankets when the house temp dips below 78[sup]o[/sup] at night while I’m sleeping. 
Do they need a zamboni to clean up after the ice gators?
I’ve lived in NC almost 20 years and I’d never heard of this place until now. I’ll have to check it out the next time I am on the coast!
That looks really uncomfortable, but I suppose if you are capable of self-inducing a type of torpor it’s not that bad. And at least weather that cold doesn’t tend to last too long here either. It was 61F when I woke up on Thursday morning and I’d been awakened during the night by frogs singing, so I guess just wait a day or two to get the weather you want in this place.
Only in Louisiana
Good god, these guys are cold blooded and freezing waters don’t kill them? No wonder they’re still here millions of years later. Us delicate humans don’t stand a chance.
Yeah. If I had to do that, you would not want me as a neighbor. I’d be quite cranky.
I’m glad someone besides me remembers the greatest team name ever. (I have no interest in hockey and know nothing else about the team, but the name was perfect.)
The Swamp Park Alligators are kind of wimpy compared to the ones at the Colorado Gators Reptile Park that sometimes take to basking in the snow.
Those guys in Colorado almost look like they are smiling. 
78? I thought living in Arizona had made me a low-temp wuss but our winter temperature is 72[sup]o[/sup].
But, yeah, blanket snorkeling is the way to go.
I remember pictures of gators with their noses out of the ice from last winter. I was thinking this was news again this year, but the article linked in the OP is from 1/11/2018. Did it get that cold again this year in NC?
Still pretty interesting tho. I like the CO gators in the snow!
The story I was reacting to was current, I messed up and linked to an old article in the OP.
Yes, it did.
The first time it happened, the caretaker in the park freaked out - until he found out what was really happening. This year when the same thing happened he just posted pics to Facebook, and news outlets picked it up again.
Aw, I thought this was going to be about someone serving up frozen alligator meat. Tease.
Dear lord, that’s the temperature in our HOUSE.
Outside, it’s a toasty 37 degrees. It’s gonna start going down later tonight – Wednesday we’re dipping below 0.
From a postcard from the Colorado Gator Park, another gator on ice.
Here’s video of one.
I beg to differ. It has nothing to do with alligators, but the best hockey team ever was clearly the Macon Whoopees in the Southern Hockey League 1973-4
Two later teams dropped the final s 1996-2001 in the Central Hockey League and in the East Coast Hockey League in 2001-2
I meant house as well; sorry I wasn’t clear about that. Our typical winter lows are in the low 40s but it plays footsie with freezing a couple times during the season and about one year in three dips below freezing.
A few years ago the low hit the mid 20s three nights running and for six months afterward, the Saturday call-in garden show on the radio was nothing but, “Can I save my [plant] or is it a goner?”
