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Baby alligators experience the wild for the first time in the minutes following their release onto the nest where they were first collected as eggs. The reptiles hatched in captivity inside an incubator at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Kennedy’s Ecological Program studies several facets of alligator health, including nesting. The center shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, which encompasses 140,000 acres that provide a habitat for more than 330 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles.