Sacramento Zoo warns visitors after alligator swallows plush toy
An alligator at the Sacramento Zoo is recovering after swallowing – and later regurgitating – a plush toy that fell into its habitat.
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An alligator at the Sacramento Zoo is recovering after swallowing – and later regurgitating – a plush toy that fell into its habitat.
Self-proclaimed owner Tony Cavallaro said he treated his pet alligator Albert "than most people take care of their kids."
The gator was found with his heart "beating three beats per minute."
The baby gator is one of just eight known leucistic alligators in the world, according to Gatorland, the park where it was born.
The 13-foot alligator was "humanely killed," and the victim's remains were recovered by a dive team from a canal, authorities said.
The incident comes less than a year after another woman was fatally attacked by an alligator in Beaufort County.
The 7-foot-long alligator that was found in Fair Oaks along the American River is now dead and investigators are trying to find out how it got there. "At this point, we don't know where it came from," said Capt. Patrick Foy with the California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife. The large reptile is at the center of an investigation.
A 7-foot-long alligator was found in Fair Oaks along the American River and investigators are trying to find out how it got there.
California cannot ban the importation and sale of crocodile and alligator products, a federal judge has ruled, in a victory for the state of Louisiana, which challenged the ban along with businesses in multiple states.
A woman says she watched as her neighbor was pulled away in the jaws of an alligator right behind their homes. She says she tried to help, but by the time she could reach her, it was too late.
The woman was walking her dog, which survived the incident, at the time of the attack.
Major storms tend to make wildlife more active, and that's not the only hazard lurking in floodwaters.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found a large alligator by the edge of a pond near the body of an unidentified woman, police said.
The American alligator populates nearly every swamp, lake and river (and occasional kitchen) in the southeastern US. But when Erin Weaver spotted one swimming near her Houston home, she suspected it was the one in danger.
Sometimes police find the strangest things when they execute a search warrant. For Fifth District Cleveland police detectives, it was a nearly 4-foot-long alligator.
For the first time in nearly five decades, a small group of hunters in North Carolina will be able to hunt alligators this year.
Customers on a Spirit Airlines flight probably weren't expecting to hear that an alligator was keeping them from getting to their destination.
An alligator that went roaming in a Florida neighborhood decided not to leave without a fight and literally knocked out an animal control officer sent to capture it.
A TV personality in Boston suddenly went from mild-mannered alligator holder to alligator wrestler.
Officers canvassed neighborhood to find out if any pets had gone missing in the past 40 years.
Its owner Joshua Kerley is now on in jail on a number of charges, including failing to have a permit for the gator.
Beagles are bred to find small game like rabbits, but apparently they can sniff out bigger game too.
A routine traffic stop that turned into a search and seizure involving more than 900 marijuana plants, seven firearms, $29,000 in cash and a three-foot-long baby alligator was anything but routine.
