Digestive System

• The digestive system of the alligator is short and simple
• In their mouth they have many rows of teeth, but they are not used for chewing, they're used for trapping and seizing prey
• Their stomach consists of two parts, the gizzard and the digestive section
• the gizzard has gastroliths to help digest food in the stomach and also works as a buoyancy controller
• The food then passes through the intestine to the cloaca
• Since alligators don't have a bladder their urine and wast exist through the cloaca which is an opening to the outside of their body