An alligator measuring one meter twenty appeared unexpectedly in a Brooklyn square, in the city of NY, in conditions that, according to the urban park ranger officers, were “very bad and lethargic”. The creature was rushed to the animal care center in the American city and then transported to the Bronx Zoo.
According to the protection center, this is the sixth alligator since 2018 that the department has helped rescue, although almost all for different reasons. The temperature that reptiles of this type need to survive comfortably is between 20 and 30 degrees, while the climate was around 4 and the water in that pond NY it could be even colder.
One of the theories that they hold about how it got to the park in the North American city is that it probably belonged to a person who had it as a pet, but when it grew too much they decided to release it into the wild, specifically in the vicinity of the lake. “People adopt these exotic creatures when they’re little because they think they’re ‘cute,’ but when they grow up they don’t want them anymore,” Katy Hansen, director of communication for the Animal Care Center of California, told the New York Times. NY.
One of the fishermen in the area indicated that he was “grateful that he did not catch the creature.” “If I saw it, I would cut the line and run,” he told the New York Post. On the other hand, one of the parents who frequents the park He confessed to them that the discovery “is quite terrifying because it is an area very frequented by children”.
What is New York Animal Care Center
Normally, this group is in charge of saving animals bred in captivity that were released into the wild by their owners, such as rabbits, turtles or even guinea pigs, which do not have the tools due to the condition in which they were born.
“These do not know how to get food and serve as food for other more wild, so it is illegal to release any kind of animal”said Hansen, who added that this practice is “inhumane.”
