92. But the alligator is becoming very scarce in Florida and in a few years about the only place that you will be able to find them will be in the museums. While alligators were plentiful five years ago, now they are a curiosity. Every year they are becoming scarcer and scarcer and in a little while they will no doubt be extinct. Thousands are killed annually for sport and many more for their skins--while the young ones are sold at every other store for a quarter.