An alligator rescued from a lake in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in February has died, Bronx Zoo officials said.
An alligator rescued from a lake in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in February has died, Bronx Zoo officials said Friday. Workers from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation discovered and rescued the four-foot alligator “in poor condition” from 37-degree Fahrenheit temperatures in the Brooklyn park.
“Despite the intensive care, the alligator was so emaciated, debilitated, and anemic, her immune system was not as strong as it needed to be and she succumbed to those infections,” the release stated. The alligator was being kept illegally as a pet and ingested a bathtub stopper during that time, which created a chronic ulcer in her stomach, according to the zoo. The owner has not yet been publicly identified. The zoo called the incident a “tragic case of animal abuse” in the release.
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