![]() ![]() Animal Care Services Show More Show Less 7 of7 Reptile care specialist Caleb Harris of Animal World and Snake Farm Zoo takes firm hold of an alligator at a home on San Antonio's Southeast Side on Tuesday, Aug. Animal Care Services Show More Show Less 6 of7 The 5-foot alligator was secured by Animal Word and Snake Farm Zoo in New Braunfels, where the gator now lives.Īnd its fate will be determined by Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens. ![]() Gator" by San Antonio Animal Care Services officers, was found in the yard of a home in the 3100 block of Rosalind Way on the Southeast Side on Aug. George Shelley /Getty Images Show More Show Less 5 of7 Warmer temperatures produce males, while cooler temperatures produce females. Carlos Carreno /Getty Images Show More Show Less 4 of7Īmerican alligators hatch from eggs, where the nest temperature determines their sex. Elizabeth Conley /Staff photographer Show More Show Less 2 of7Īlligators have an armor-like skin with little bony scales called “scutes.” eyfoto /Getty Images / iStockphoto Show More Show Less 3 of7Īmerican alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) performing a mating ritual often called “water dancing.” Gators bellow at each other, which creates vibrations in the water that send ripples out to a prospective mate. American gators do inhabit the Texas Gulf Coast and the eastern side of the state. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateĪn American alligator lays in shallow water near the trail at Brazos Bend State Park in Needville. “(But it is) definitely not common and certainly no reason for public concern.” “It’s not out of the realm of possibility,” said Jonathan Warner, alligator program leader for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. Yet game wardens do get the occasional call about a gator loose in Bexar County. He noted they’ve also helped assist with gator captures in Cibolo Creek, Schertz and New Braunfels, including on their own property when they bought the snake farm.Īmerican alligators are a rare sight in and around the Alamo City. “They’re definitely becoming much more common in the area,” said Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo deputy director Jarrod Forthman. As for the smaller junior gator, Animal World & Snake Farm Zoo in New Braunfels took it in. Game wardens opted not to capture the 10-foot gator, which sauntered back to the wild after a couple of days and hasn’t been seen since. In both cases, no person or gator was harmed. Then in early August, Animal Care Services responded to a Southeast Side homeowner who spotted a young 5-foot gator in his yard when he took out the morning trash. Last year in early July, WOAI and KABB TV news personality Ashley Sutton posted on Facebook a photo of a 10-foot gator in her aunt and uncle’s driveway near Calaveras Lake. ![]()
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