This baby alligator will feed on insects, crayfish, minnows, snails, small frogs, and just about anything else it can fit in its tiny mouth. It will grow approximately one foot per year until it reaches sexual maturity, and will grow only an inch a year thereafter. It's diet will expand to include wading birds, turtles, fish, raccoons, nutria, and an occasional deer...
Baby alligators themselves are a favorite food of egrets, herons and owls. They are also preyed upon by bass, garfish, bowfin, turtles, raccoons, otters, mink, snakes, and larger alligators!