<p>Alligators at The Shallotte River Swamp Park in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, had a chance to thaw out and sun themselves after temperatures rose above freezing on January 9.</p><p>The American alligators survived the freeze by staying in the water with their snouts sticking out</a>. The park wrote in a blog post</a> on Saturday that the cold-blooded gators could endure temperatures by slowing their metabolism in a hibernation-like process called brumation.</p><p>As soon as the temperature was back up and the sun out, so were the alligators. Credit: Youtube/Shallotte River Swamp Park via Storyful</p><br />
