Fish and Game Officer Brian Marek received a call Thursday evening from a person who was walking their dog in New Plymouth, Idaho, according to a statement from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. “They spotted something moving in the brush and discovered the 3.5-foot alligator,” said the department in the statement.
“In all likelihood, this alligator got loose from someone, and we are interested in finding the owner,” Regional Conservation Officer Matt O’Connell said in the statement. It is illegal to own alligators without a permit in Idaho or to release captive crocodilians – the family to which alligators belong – into the wild, according to the statement. Adult alligators can grow to be about 8 to 11 feet long on average.
The true reasons: cut cost and safety 🥵
gators can travel hundreds / thousands of miles
Hundreds of miles from Idaho, i know my math and my alligators and i know where they aren't, hundreds of miles from Idaho, it's more like 2000 miles. Pesky creatures migrating huh?
That's a lot of alligators where they shouldn't be this year.
Somebody had this alligator for a “pet” and it escaped?
What are you supposed to do in a situation like this?
Well, if tiktok and Instagram are any indication PEOPLE ARE LEEPING THEM AS PETS!!
Good found
It being a Crocodilla reptile, it can survive said environment as long there is a water source, food alone wouldn't be enough to allow it to trek on its own from Texas the closest natural locale in wild
Alligators inhabit fresh water ponds, lakes and streams. Certainly not exclusive to coastal areas. Crocodiles are salt water reptiles.
Apparently CNN has never been to FL or LA or…
Alligators are amphibious. Great nature. Amen
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'Merica
See! People are denying climate change. But without nonstop methane gas filling the atmosphere this animal would have stayed in Antarctica where they naturally dwell.
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