Decades ago, somebody spotted a young gator into one of the lakes and ponds in Golden Gate Park, SF. SF SURE don't have gator weather but there it was. Luckily it was recovered and put in a zoo of some kind. Presumably some 'pet owner' dumped it for 'reasons'.
It was a couple of years ago - that seven articles from the great lakes region about gaters and crocs spotted within the region. From Ontario Canada to Illinois.
@stephenm8100 There used to be a pet shop back in the day near Willoughby Hills that sold Aquatic pets and had gaters there. They shut down tho but it was open for a good while maybe it came from there? I often wondered what happened to the pets that got sold there. Actually suprised this is the FIRST sighting tbh.
In a world where people don't even know how to process their own emotions properly, and act like adult babies, it doesn't surprise me they couldn't process what to do with their pet.
@@MsKatyDidKnot - That is so NOT true. I tried before. Large reptiles are NOT easy to get rid of in a nice way. It's worse than work and expensive to travel with them and HOPE.... "this time".....
@@redfaux74 There are gator sanctuaries in states like MS, TX, FL, ... even MI has one. If you've obtained a gator as a pet, maybe transportation costs are the least you can cover to give the animal a better life?
@@edie4321 The only time one should be a pet is if it’s raised from when it’s a baby and it has a good experienced owner. However you should not just snatch them from the wild when it clearly is not in need of care from a human.
@@gabecollins5585 , If you can't support it through life, why make it depend on humans? It's sad. My friends pair ended up at the zoo. They made a big mistake.
@@edie4321 I know. Only people who can support a wild animal and are doing so out of the animals need and not just wanting a pet should do so. Whoever decided to keep this one as a pet and release it into the wild is a horrible person because they are not as good in the wild if they are captive.
People go on vacation and catch a baby alligator when it's no bigger than a lizard because they are cute at that size. After a few years, they get tired of keeping an ever-growing carnivorous reptile as a pet so they release it into a local waterway. When I was living in Portland, Oregon a six-foot alligator appeared in the creek behind my apartment complex. It was quite the local attraction. This wasn't the first alligator seen around Portland, nor the last. One pops up every couple of years.
gators like that can be pretty sneaky and live in waterways for years until theyre big enough to be seen, its also possible that since it is a gator and not a croc that it can weather colder temps
Check the warmer water discharges near the area, especially near plants that use a circular system, they love those, I live in Florida but love fishing especially in cold waters, who ever released it needs to brought up on charges
The Ohio River has several gators that survive by the warm water discharge pipes. I have pictures of a 3 footer breaking ice in December at a landfill retention pond in West Mifflin, Pa. The local police have caught several in that area. A family used to raise them there. The family is long gone, but the gators keep showing up every year.
A "pet" would suggest a paper trail. It's more likely that it was poached from the South and then the person got it home and realized they weren't prepared to take care of it.
Used to be able to buy them back in the day..like the dye colored biddies and duckies at the five and dime around easter..oh and parakeets and cooters too 😃
@@AFloridaSoncertainly the most likely explanation. I’m in northeastern NY. Erie is west of me. I def would swim in that lake until the gator is caught. That would scare the begeezus out of me, glorying around, knowing there’s potentially an alligator 🐊 under me. In this, I am a super snowflake, lol
"I'm rooting for the crocodile. I hope he swallows your friends whole. You might want to arrest me for that too. Is that a crime? To wish the chewing of law enforcement?" She was so epic in that movie.... I miss her comedic genius and intellect.
It's a reptile. It doesn't have the parts of the brain that "feel". It's a machine.It kills and eats, and reproduces. Period, full stop. Australian nutbar legislators made alligators protected species a couple of decades ago. Predictably their numbers exploded, and now they hunt and kill people. And, the Animal Rights people there still protect the reptiles.
Allligators brumate during winter. They’ll stick their nose thru the ice as it freezes over. Then hibernate for months. Turtles also do this. Is possible for it to survive the winter.
@@brandonweeks Direct quote from a expert “The gators won’t freeze if the water stays liquid,” Sorry but water in ny can get to 1 to 3 feet thick. They cannot survive that.
Poor little thing. He's no danger to anyone. Shame on that woman. He's a Caiman, and is in dire need of being gently rescued and taken to the deep South.
@@itscoldinwinter1Pretty sure they meant it isn't going to attack anyone unprovoked. Sure, if you corner it it could do serious damage, but it won't approach you.
Actually, in South Carolina and in the Ozarks where the temps do get to freezing, the alligator will stick it's snout out of the water while it hibernates, and still be able to breathe with ice forming around the air holes. This isn't possible on Lake Erie, of course. That gator wouldn't survive a northern winter.
If true, a non-native reptile like that in our area can be a risk to humans, especially in Lake Erie Waters and to kids, even at that size. And as someone else already mentioned, if it was a pet or captured and fed for a time in transit it is trained to think that humans bring the food. It can also be a risk to pets. The biggest risk is to native species who have not faced a predator like a non-native alligator or caiman. If it gets into Presque Isle’s swamps and waterways that will present it’s own complications for capture since it’s summer, as well as possibly be harmful to many of our resident species. We have had a couple of very mild winters, but if we have a true NW PA winter and the lake freezes over much of that area it’s very unlikely the poor thing would survive. If it’s true and if it was released that’s an awful thing for the local species and the creature itself. Releasing non-native species is why Florida and the Everglades are threatened by massive pythons that kill native species.
@@ghostladydarkling3250everything that the commenter said went over your head. No where did they deny the alligator will live, they just gave possibilities and possible consequences. “Get a grip.”
That guy is completely wrong. If it was someone's pet then it's used to people and probably not afraid of you and may actually approach you thinking you're gonna feed it
@edie4321 - Gators can be somewhat tamed if fed well. It is possible. Unlikely but if a person spends a lot of time, a lot of care, it can be somewhat tamed. It has been done. It is foolish.... but it has been done.
Indeed it is, same with the movie "Alligator" with all the gators living in the New York City sewers. Those ones in NYC got unto the sewers by somebody flushing a few babies down the toilet. In THE NY sewers they flourished eating cockroaches and then rats when they got bigger. The NYC sewers are very warm even in the winter so they grew and grew until some were 10-12 feet long
@@matclairoux the truth is neither knows what can happen. Im a professional herpetologist and i dont know. Only Gd knows these things. Notice he said its "not really" dangerous. I was just pointing out people's arrogance.
@@davedaves3489 It does seem a bit irresponsible for him to tell people it's not dangerous. Just because it's not likely to kill an adult doesn't mean it couldn't pose a danger to a kid or a pet, and if it's an escaped pet it's all the more likely to be unafraid of humans. After all, children and pets are both "small mammals".
As someone who lives in the area I have seen posts on Facebook containing a video on a gator but it is the same video that has been circulating for about 5 years now so I don't believe it till I see it
Caiman, alligator, Croc. all crocodilians are cold-blooded. look up that alligator farm that froze over last year, only their nose is sticking out of the ice for days. and the Great Lakes don't freeze over entirely, he'll survive.
@@albundy6008no where near what it was 50 years ago. I spent from the late 60s to 2010 going in that lake and Rocky river and it's not nearly as polluted as it was.
Actually people who do something like release this gator where it won't survive or is a hazard to people are not strange they are sick and disgusting..
One of threes scenarios: 1) animal escaped from somewhere or ate it’s owner then left 2) animal got too big, owner could / would not take care of it any longer 3) someone with nefarious/ satanic motives released it into the wild to reek havoc My guess is #3 …
At Florida State University's 'Reservation', in Tallahassee they have what is basically a lake park. They have gators and the lakes freeze in the winter.
@@donaldmiller4386 No, certainly not but it speaks to the capabilities of animals, related to some small ones that you can keep in your freezer for three months and thaw out; who handle it with ease.
@@MsKatyDidKnot Yeah no s*** Sherlock. Hence the reason I said "typically" I really wish people would comprehend what they're reading before thinking they're saying something special
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I hope they catch them and charge them with animal abuse.
A 4-5 ft gator is long past tadpoles etc! It's more interested in larger fish and close approaching land animals, particularly dogs, dogs are a menu favorite with 'gators.
Depending on how quickly the colder temperatures arrive, it won't survive past November, December at best before it dies. It will go to the bottom of the lake in an effort to remain warmer and die there. Someone brought it up North from a Florida visit when it was freshly hatched, and now it has grown too big too fast for the owner to keep.
Hey now we cleaned up the industrial waste, the only thing that 'gator is in danger of is dysentery from all the poop that gets dumped along the American side.
There was a alligator in Green River, Utah. A lot of snow this gator survived in for a very long time! They can live through long winters as long as they can breath.
It could possibly live through winter maybe They have survived millions of years there pretty smart very crafty You never know it’s brain is tuned to survive
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@SCVM__ 1 day ago "You can tell that baby is no where near 4-5 feet. (... assuming that is actually Lake Erie)" Sooo, you think everyone involved in this story has no idea what lake it is that they're talking about?! YOU like to 'assume' things, so I'm going to 'assume' You are more clueless than anyone around you.
@@6XXBANSHEEXX8 Stay Scared, believe every internet Post and keep Thumbing up Your own Comments. 🤣 You can see by the extremely bulbous eyes which only babies have it is not 4-5 foot. I am the "clueless" one😜 ....There are Lake Ontario Shark Videos for You to rub your ManJina too as well.
@@6XXBANSHEEXX8 Stay Scared, believe every internet Post and keep Thumbing up Your own Comments. 🤣 You can see by the extremely bulbous eyes which only babies have it is not 4-5 foot. I am the "clueless" one 😜 ....There are Lake Ontario Shark Videos for You to rub your ManJina too as well.
Who evet owned that gator needs to come forth and explain #1 howvit got away and #2 why they didn't notify authorities thier gator got away There is no conceivable way that animal survives winter
As the northern regions continue warming(naturally) we will most likely see species showing up that wouldnt normally be here otherwise. Here in Canada we are seeing insects, birds, etc that would be found in warmer southern regions.
"It's definitely more scared of you than you are of it" this is one of those less than greater than equations that can easily be gotten wrong. Whoops my math is bad.
Poor things still has its juvenile stripes. No way is there a stable population that far north so it has to have been someone's pet that they irresponsibly released or broke out of its enclosure. Luckily it's harmless at that size. It's going to hang around people cuz that's where it expects to get food. Not to mention humans and alligators often overlap habitat wise. I really feel bad for it because unless they capture it it's not going to survive winter. If it was bigger and had some more weight behind it it might have a chance but I highly doubt it. It might make it until January, but not after that. I hope they catch it. I also hope they find out whoever abandoned it and prosecute them.
A Cayman can still eat pets and bite a human. Whether it's a Cayman, a Croc, or a Gator, it will probably freeze to death this winter, and that's just cruel.
It either laid dormant in the sewer systems in Detroit or escaped out of some fools basement as an escaped exotic pet and flushed out by the recent rains to Erie, or has found the cooling pools by the nuk plant during the cold season and is been around for a short while. With so much luck it should be called ' Lucky ' fun fact: With all the pollution that is found in Erie, that will probably soon become it's demise....Or will it ?
It was "once" their habitat. I've lived a good part of my life near these animals. Keep your distance, don't walk dogs or small children near shorelines in an area known to have these creatures around. They do move around and can climb even destroy fences. And for God's sake NEVER FEED THEM!
When I was a kid, decades ago, there was a newspaper report of a 'gator in the Thames River, connecting to Lake Erie by way of the Detroit River and Lake Saint Claire. It may not have been true, but this report makes me go "hmm."
I don't know why it's so unexpected to see a alligator in Michigan we do have them, before Michigan became populated with people this state was a swampland and in swamps you have alligators. Scientists have stated that American alligators can survive in temperatures of water at 40 Fahrenheit or below they can survive winters they go into a state of hibernation and they keep their noses above the ice in order to breathe, scientists say that alligators can survive in winter but if you look up specifically can alligators survive Michigan winter it claims the DNR says no but that makes no sense since people have seen large alligators here in Michigan they don't get that large over a 1-year period takes many years to get big and if it takes many years then they must do a damn good job at surviving through winter
Sorry you are wrong. They can survive short winters. They cannot survive long Michigan winters. They survive with their snouts above the ice to breath. However they cannot survive with 2 feet of snow on the ice. They would suffocate. They cannot move because they are cold blooded and those temperatures forget it.
Hahahaha, I live in Michigan also, You're full of it buddy. Gators do not survive the winter in MI. Nobody ever saw a large gator of many years in the wild in MI.
an alligator of that size is not a danger to any one, The Executive Director of Port Authority isn't too swift on alligators. The onlyone in danger is the alligator when winter comes.
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In a couple of decades, they will find it warm enough to start colonizing if they aren't already. Isn't crazy to see them in D.C. now and that's about as far north. Lakes don't even freeze now and a gator can already cope with a couple inches of ice on the water. They poke their snout out and stay under.
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Someone got rid of their pet, which is cruel.
zoo
They have to catch it before the season starts to change, otherwise, it may not make it through a frigid winter.
I agree
not cruel simply stupid
Decades ago, somebody spotted a young gator into one of the lakes and ponds in Golden Gate Park, SF. SF SURE don't have gator weather but there it was. Luckily it was recovered and put in a zoo of some kind. Presumably some 'pet owner' dumped it for 'reasons'.
My guess... Pet that got too big for the tank. And the careless owner released it.
It was a couple of years ago - that seven articles from the great lakes region about gaters and crocs spotted within the region. From Ontario Canada to Illinois.
@@samzavinful okay, so how did they get up there? Illegal pet trafficking?
@stephenm8100 There used to be a pet shop back in the day near Willoughby Hills that sold Aquatic pets and had gaters there. They shut down tho but it was open for a good while maybe it came from there? I often wondered what happened to the pets that got sold there. Actually suprised this is the FIRST sighting tbh.
@@NOPE-po2pq so it was somebody being careless... I wonder if the Gators and Crocs could survive the winter by rading a beaver den?
@@stephenm8100 it gets really cold here
so many irresponsible people where animals are concerned
Anybody can make a baby.
white people
Not to mention humans..
In a world where people don't even know how to process their own emotions properly, and act like adult babies, it doesn't surprise me they couldn't process what to do with their pet.
Actually, not that many. It's just that the irresponsible ones draw attention.
If you can't take care of your pet for whatever reason, there are so many organizations out there that will, no questions asked.
So true.
no there arent
@@MsKatyDidKnot - That is so NOT true. I tried before. Large reptiles are NOT easy to get rid of in a nice way. It's worse than work and expensive to travel with them and HOPE.... "this time".....
@@redfaux74 There are gator sanctuaries in states like MS, TX, FL, ... even MI has one. If you've obtained a gator as a pet, maybe transportation costs are the least you can cover to give the animal a better life?
The economy is so bad and donations are so minimal now that most rescues and shelters have no available spaces.
This is so sad , to have one for a pet is ridiculous. They figure out who did this they need charged .
It's a Caiman, not an alligator. It still should not be a pet.
When we went to the Everglades when I was a kid, they were selling the cute small baby ones🐊
@@edie4321 The only time one should be a pet is if it’s raised from when it’s a baby and it has a good experienced owner. However you should not just snatch them from the wild when it clearly is not in need of care from a human.
@@gabecollins5585 , If you can't support it through life, why make it depend on humans? It's sad. My friends pair ended up at the zoo. They made a big mistake.
@@edie4321 I know. Only people who can support a wild animal and are doing so out of the animals need and not just wanting a pet should do so. Whoever decided to keep this one as a pet and release it into the wild is a horrible person because they are not as good in the wild if they are captive.
People go on vacation and catch a baby alligator when it's no bigger than a lizard because they are cute at that size. After a few years, they get tired of keeping an ever-growing carnivorous reptile as a pet so they release it into a local waterway. When I was living in Portland, Oregon a six-foot alligator appeared in the creek behind my apartment complex. It was quite the local attraction. This wasn't the first alligator seen around Portland, nor the last. One pops up every couple of years.
There was probably one spotted in Oregon as well. I think it was "release your gator day". There was also on spotted in North Caroline the same day.
gators like that can be pretty sneaky and live in waterways for years until theyre big enough to be seen, its also possible that since it is a gator and not a croc that it can weather colder temps
Not sure they can survive the lower temps. Unlike mammals they depend on external heat for every bodily movement.
@myinnermagpie they'd survive for now up there but once the brunt of winter comes they are done for.
Their fucking dangerous. Yeah their no Salt Water Croc but I wouldn't want to come across one in the water.
Check the warmer water discharges near the area, especially near plants that use a circular system, they love those, I live in Florida but love fishing especially in cold waters, who ever released it needs to brought up on charges
The Ohio River has several gators that survive by the warm water discharge pipes. I have pictures of a 3 footer breaking ice in December at a landfill retention pond in West Mifflin, Pa. The local police have caught several in that area. A family used to raise them there. The family is long gone, but the gators keep showing up every year.
Well,you just go ahead and tell us who it is,Columbo,and we'll get 'er done.
That's a caiman not a gator. Poor thing.
That's exactly what that is. Somebody had a pet and released it.
First thing I just said
It won't survive the cold winter temps. Hopefully they can capture it.
@@kdbee6086 if the caiman finds the right spot it will even survive beeing frozen
@marcpaulus6291 pretty sure they need special condition for this to work that aren't compatible to feet of ice/snow
A "pet" would suggest a paper trail. It's more likely that it was poached from the South and then the person got it home and realized they weren't prepared to take care of it.
You aren’t poaching an alligator, transiting several states with it just to dump it.
@@tvviewer4500 Sorry, but most people don't think ahead. They find themselves in the wrong situations all the time.
A legal pet would have a paper trail yes.
Used to be able to buy them back in the day..like the dye colored biddies and duckies at the five and dime around easter..oh and parakeets and cooters too 😃
@@AFloridaSoncertainly the most likely explanation. I’m in northeastern NY. Erie is west of me. I def would swim in that lake until the gator is caught. That would scare the begeezus out of me, glorying around, knowing there’s potentially an alligator 🐊 under me. In this, I am a super snowflake, lol
If Betty White were still alive, she'd be a prime suspect. 😂
Good childhood movie 😂
"I'm rooting for the crocodile. I hope he swallows your friends whole. You might want to arrest me for that too. Is that a crime? To wish the chewing of law enforcement?" She was so epic in that movie.... I miss her comedic genius and intellect.
NICE!
lol sweet!
Great movie must see for.all kids young and old
Now that’s an Erie sight 🤓🐊😵💫
It can eat lampreys.
Can you imagine the cold and fear and hunger that poor thing is suffering? Too bad the owner won't experience the same.
What cold? It’s not winter yet
It's an alligator and wild. cold fear and hunger is not likely true. It is the apex predator and would kill in a moment.
It's a reptile. It doesn't have the parts of the brain that "feel". It's a machine.It kills and eats, and reproduces. Period, full stop. Australian nutbar legislators made alligators protected species a couple of decades ago. Predictably their numbers exploded, and now they hunt and kill people. And, the Animal Rights people there still protect the reptiles.
@@Freeze0gamerno but it will be for the next 4-12 weeks.
@@okamijubei what weather are u looking at fam? For the next few days it’s supposed to be in the high 60s/70s
Really hope it's caught before winter. Poor thing
Allligators brumate during winter. They’ll stick their nose thru the ice as it freezes over. Then hibernate for months. Turtles also do this. Is possible for it to survive the winter.
@@thepain321 ha ha ha, you do realize there's a limit to that. They cannot survive a entire northern winter frozen.
@@skiman863 they have been known to survive full winters frozen.
@@brandonweeks Direct quote from a expert “The gators won’t freeze if the water stays liquid,” Sorry but water in ny can get to 1 to 3 feet thick. They cannot survive that.
@@skiman863 you do realize these things have been around since the dinosaurs right? They can survive anything
Poor little thing. He's no danger to anyone. Shame on that woman. He's a Caiman, and is in dire need of being gently rescued and taken to the deep South.
No danger! You're nuts if you believe that!
@@itscoldinwinter1Pretty sure they meant it isn't going to attack anyone unprovoked. Sure, if you corner it it could do serious damage, but it won't approach you.
That’s a gator with a political agenda. I could see it in his eyes.
Actually, in South Carolina and in the Ozarks where the temps do get to freezing, the alligator will stick it's snout out of the water while it hibernates, and still be able to breathe with ice forming around the air holes. This isn't possible on Lake Erie, of course. That gator wouldn't survive a northern winter.
If true, a non-native reptile like that in our area can be a risk to humans, especially in Lake Erie Waters and to kids, even at that size. And as someone else already mentioned, if it was a pet or captured and fed for a time in transit it is trained to think that humans bring the food. It can also be a risk to pets.
The biggest risk is to native species who have not faced a predator like a non-native alligator or caiman. If it gets into Presque Isle’s swamps and waterways that will present it’s own complications for capture since it’s summer, as well as possibly be harmful to many of our resident species.
We have had a couple of very mild winters, but if we have a true NW PA winter and the lake freezes over much of that area it’s very unlikely the poor thing would survive. If it’s true and if it was released that’s an awful thing for the local species and the creature itself.
Releasing non-native species is why Florida and the Everglades are threatened by massive pythons that kill native species.
no schitt
@@jimmypage1517 Well, some seem to think otherwise. Hence noting these things.
@@ghostladydarkling3250everything that the commenter said went over your head. No where did they deny the alligator will live, they just gave possibilities and possible consequences. “Get a grip.”
So dramatic.
looks like a Caiman, probably a pet that was released.
Nah that's a Gator
@@Jhonfollow22 the snout is to short to be a gator
thanx professor
It’s a caiman the orbital sockets are rounder then they are in a gator 🐊 or crocodile 🐊.
It’s a caiman the orbital sockets are rounder then they are in a gator 🐊 or crocodile 🐊.
People who would swim in lake Erie are 750,000% more dangerous than any alligator, let alone that orphaned baby.
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They are also less intelligent.
Yes and on land too.
Most underrated comment on this video, LMAO!
i grew up swimming in that lake. fear me, mortal!
Best new canadian weve had in quite some time.
That guy is completely wrong. If it was someone's pet then it's used to people and probably not afraid of you and may actually approach you thinking you're gonna feed it
It’s likely was poached and was sold as a new pet. We need to wait to get all the information
And the gator would be right...,.you ARE going to feed it!
@edie4321 - Gators can be somewhat tamed if fed well. It is possible. Unlikely but if a person spends a lot of time, a lot of care, it can be somewhat tamed. It has been done. It is foolish.... but it has been done.
They do like finger snacks. 😕
Oh the horrors!
This is how Lake Placid began ...
Do you live in a perpetual celluloid world?!!
Indeed it is, same with the movie "Alligator" with all the gators living in the New York City sewers. Those ones in NYC got unto the sewers by somebody flushing a few babies down the toilet. In THE NY sewers they flourished eating cockroaches and then rats when they got bigger. The NYC sewers are very warm even in the winter so they grew and grew until some were 10-12 feet long
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@@misguidedangel6550hard to believe there's a homeless problem, you'd think they would snap it up.
I live 3 minutes from there and they say it was a “Pet”
So if it is WHO tf let their pet out
Someone who didn’t care about the laws or the welfare of the animal.
Who let the gators out 😂
Some farggin icehole
Some idiot
@@duewhit310Roman Maroni
One guy says its not dangerous.
The next lady then says its dangerous.
The guy was right (he knows animals) and the lady knows people are stupid.
@@matclairoux the truth is neither knows what can happen.
Im a professional herpetologist and i dont know.
Only Gd knows these things.
Notice he said its "not really" dangerous.
I was just pointing out people's arrogance.
@matclairoux-Of course they can be dangerous.
@@ThreeLions82 Of course, totally, but some people don't have judgment.
@@davedaves3489 It does seem a bit irresponsible for him to tell people it's not dangerous. Just because it's not likely to kill an adult doesn't mean it couldn't pose a danger to a kid or a pet, and if it's an escaped pet it's all the more likely to be unafraid of humans. After all, children and pets are both "small mammals".
As someone who lives in the area I have seen posts on Facebook containing a video on a gator but it is the same video that has been circulating for about 5 years now so I don't believe it till I see it
Solving this is as simple as finding the local wanna be big time dealer that suddenly doesn't have his alligator anymore...
As someone from Louisiana I can tell you thats not somewhere normal for a gator its way to cold he was most likely let go and that is so sad.
Caiman, not an alligator. Probably won't live through the Winter.
That is definitely an American alligator not a caiman.
Caiman, alligator, Croc. all crocodilians are cold-blooded. look up that alligator farm that froze over last year, only their nose is sticking out of the ice for days. and the Great Lakes don't freeze over entirely, he'll survive.
@@ShaunPringle-g1o I agree there's a chance it would survive the winter. Might find a warmer water spot caused by human activity.
DEFINITELY not gonna survive great lakes winter.....
Thanks jack hanna
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Do stop flushing your pet alligators down the toilet😂
Probably somebody's pet that got turned loose. People are so irresponsible sometime.
That's great. 50 years ago the lake was a cesspool.
It still is.
@@albundy6008no where near what it was 50 years ago. I spent from the late 60s to 2010 going in that lake and Rocky river and it's not nearly as polluted as it was.
It's attached to Cleveland and Detroit. You thought what? 🤨
Poor thing. People are strange.
People are idiots!
Actually people who do something like release this gator where it won't survive or is a hazard to people are not strange they are sick and disgusting..
Strange? I can think of many, much more appropriate, adjectives.
People suck!
Still less strange than people encouraging kids to cut off their genitalia and claiming to be a different gender. Go democrats!!
One of threes scenarios:
1) animal escaped from somewhere or ate it’s owner then left
2) animal got too big, owner could / would not take care of it any longer
3) someone with nefarious/ satanic motives released it into the wild to reek havoc
My guess is #3 …
This is why you don't flush turtles and goldfish down the toilet. They get into the lakes and turn into alligators.
Dudette, there's film footage of a massive SHARK, MILES up the St. Lawrence River
swimming under a dock where kids jump in 😑
I was just in the St. Lawerence River on Wednesday 👀
Poor little guy outgrew Cletus' tub so he let it go where it won't survive. God, humans suck.
More likely Leroy's tub.
They make it sound like its freakin Godzilla, it's just a tiny little swamp doggo. They need to stop being so dramatic.
It’s the news, that’s what they do 😂
They don't stop growing...
@@VeneficaDelirium Wouldn't live long enough to become a threat, only thing it can threaten currently is little purse dogs.
That’s a Caiman. It will die when it gets cold
Thanks jack hanna
Robert - When I saw the video that's exactly what I said. The nose is too small for a 2 foot gator.
Good
@@jdrayton7224 - 😡 That's a waste of good boots. 🤣
At Florida State University's 'Reservation', in Tallahassee they have what is basically a lake park. They have gators and the lakes freeze in the winter.
But does it freeze for 3 to 4 months straight at a time?
@@donaldmiller4386 No, certainly not but it speaks to the capabilities of animals, related to some small ones that you can keep in your freezer for three months and thaw out; who handle it with ease.
@@jimlasswell4491 But lake Erie is typically frozen for 3 months at a time
@@donaldmiller4386 Lake Erie did not freeze this past winter. Not at all.
@@MsKatyDidKnot Yeah no s*** Sherlock. Hence the reason I said "typically" I really wish people would comprehend what they're reading before thinking they're saying something special
I hope they catch them and charge them with animal abuse.
"Crikey" is an Australian term where they happen to have crocodiles, not alligators. Theres a big difference.
Thanks Jerry
Sharks attack if they see you as prey, crocs attack you if they feel like it.
"It's more scared of you than you are of it", until it gets big enough to eat you !!!
Caiman only get but so big
@@JDReC100 Ya, they said it was a gator but it did look more like a Caiman from the snout and the color.
Tury camnsitvive in winter. The slow their metabolism down and goes into stasis basically. They leave snout out of the water to breath.
A 4-5 ft gator is long past tadpoles etc! It's more interested in larger fish and close approaching land animals, particularly dogs, dogs are a menu favorite with 'gators.
Have you seen bullfrog tadpoles? It's definitely still eating tadpoles.
They don't really like dog, funny enough. Even if it does happen sometimes.
Poor guy. Hope they find him and get him to safety
And don't kill the poor thing just because it's a GATOR 😔
Looks like a Cayman as someone said below. not a Gator .
It's an island???
Its a caiman, probably someones pet that they released when it got too big...
thanx professor
It's harmless. Does not look like a gator either.
That happened in Pittsburgh two last summer they found a 3 . 2 in the river and one on someone front porch .
Yup. I remember that.
Depending on how quickly the colder temperatures arrive, it won't survive past November, December at best before it dies. It will go to the bottom of the lake in an effort to remain warmer and die there. Someone brought it up North from a Florida visit when it was freshly hatched, and now it has grown too big too fast for the owner to keep.
Aw! It’s just a baby! What a cutie! Don’t hurt the danger dino!
Sorry, but this will not survive a Cleveland winter. Cruel.
Lake Erie will turn that thing into Godzilla!
Godzilla isn’t an Aligator. It’s more of a hybrid new breed and nuclear powered lizard.
Hey now we cleaned up the industrial waste, the only thing that 'gator is in danger of is dysentery from all the poop that gets dumped along the American side.
@@oldjarhead386 🤣🤣🤣🤣 That be cool.
A Real Lake Erie monster 😜
Someone call Jeremy Wade of Rover Monsters, he’ll catch that monster!
As someone who's from southern Louisiana I can assure you the alligator won't harm you. He's more afraid of you than you are of him.
I envision a couple kids giggling at the news report as the costume dries out in the garage!
There was a alligator in Green River, Utah. A lot of snow this gator survived in for a very long time! They can live through long winters as long as they can breath.
It could possibly live through winter maybe
They have survived millions of years there pretty smart very crafty
You never know it’s brain is tuned to survive
Someone got tired of their emotional support alligator.
I seen Big foot in a canoe yesterday by the Lorain Lighthouse. He was eating a Slimjim and pounding down a RedBull.
Calling all animal lovers! Cody Roberts of Daniel, Wyoming has yet to be punished for his horrific abuse towards a wolf cub known as Thea. We must not allow him, nor any other torturer of animals get away with only a slap on the wrist. If any of you care, please fight that real justice be met! Keep this story alive, ask for better animal protection laws, continue to protest until he is given server jail time for his awful crimes. Don’t let Thea die in vain! Demand that her murderer is brought to justice. That’s what it means to be a Wildlife Warrior!
#JusticeForWolves
Erie Pennsylvania near the East Avenue boat launch is where it was seen
Alligator was up from Florida visiting friends while Florida was having the hurricane.
😂😂😂
Someone moved from Florida and decided against the pet in his apartment.
You can tell that baby is no where near 4-5 feet.
(... assuming that is actually Lake Erie)
@SCVM__ 1 day ago
"You can tell that baby is no where near 4-5 feet.
(... assuming that is actually Lake Erie)"
Sooo, you think everyone involved in this story has no idea what lake it is that they're talking about?! YOU like to 'assume' things, so I'm going to 'assume' You are more clueless than anyone around you.
@@6XXBANSHEEXX8 Stay Scared, believe every internet Post and keep Thumbing up Your own Comments. 🤣 You can see by the extremely bulbous eyes which only babies have it is not 4-5 foot. I am the "clueless" one😜 ....There are Lake Ontario Shark Videos for You to rub your ManJina too as well.
@@6XXBANSHEEXX8 Stay Scared, believe every internet Post and keep Thumbing up Your own Comments. 🤣 You can see by the extremely bulbous eyes which only babies have it is not 4-5 foot. I am the "clueless" one 😜 ....There are Lake Ontario Shark Videos for You to rub your ManJina too as well.
@@6XXBANSHEEXX8 Keeps hiding my reply .... Sort comments by newest and Scroll down
That's what happens when idiot people buy an alligator for a pet and then it gets too big and aggressive so they release it wherever.
Aligators were found in sewers in Buffalo. I lived in Buffalo NY 1976 when more than one was reported in or near erie 😮 🐊LOL
As a person from Texas this guy does not know ANYTHING about alligators !!!!! It will kill you and eat you if given the chance.
Who put that poor guy in there?
biden did! 🤣
As long as it’s not a proper flat dog, I think we’ll be okay.
Nobody is in danger with a 3yo crocodilian unless they harrass it.
I doubt seriously it would bite someone unless they tried to grab it
It just wants a Lil nibble 😅
“It’s definitely more scared of you than you are of it.”
SHEEEEEIIT!
Listen to Radiohead’s song ‘baby alligators in New York sewers’
Im in Mississippi. I see gators cruising through the bayous all the time.
OK? They're not native to the northeast US, and it gets nasty cold up here, especially in Erie.
My wife told me she was going to the beach that day for a swim. Now I see her picture on the news, please don’t bring her back.
Old fart humor.
Incredible that this gator story happens every couple years in Michigan alone. Wow
Who evet owned that gator needs to come forth and explain #1 howvit got away and #2 why they didn't notify authorities thier gator got away
There is no conceivable way that animal survives winter
"it's not really going to come after you" lol not yet-its too small- if it lasts through the winter-doubtful-stay tuned
Irresponsible pet owner .
That cold blooded critter Wont last thru fall.
As the northern regions continue warming(naturally) we will most likely see species showing up that wouldnt normally be here otherwise. Here in Canada we are seeing insects, birds, etc that would be found in warmer southern regions.
Lake Erie 'beach-goers' !?!
Who the hell swims in Lake Erie!?! They probably glow in the dark after coming out of that cesspool!
"It's definitely more scared of you than you are of it" this is one of those less than greater than equations that can easily be gotten wrong. Whoops my math is bad.
It's not afraid of anything. It only knows that it's hungry. Irresponsible for the so called "expert" to make that statement on the news.
People shouldn’t be allowed to have ANY exotic animals as pets! 🤬
Poor things still has its juvenile stripes. No way is there a stable population that far north so it has to have been someone's pet that they irresponsibly released or broke out of its enclosure. Luckily it's harmless at that size. It's going to hang around people cuz that's where it expects to get food. Not to mention humans and alligators often overlap habitat wise. I really feel bad for it because unless they capture it it's not going to survive winter. If it was bigger and had some more weight behind it it might have a chance but I highly doubt it. It might make it until January, but not after that. I hope they catch it. I also hope they find out whoever abandoned it and prosecute them.
That's a caymen.... sorry, caiman.
A Cayman can still eat pets and bite a human. Whether it's a Cayman, a Croc, or a Gator, it will probably freeze to death this winter, and that's just cruel.
@@hildeschmid8400 cayman is an island. caiman is a crocodilian.
@hildeschmid8400 duh. Caymen are very very dangerous.. especially when grown.
@@thehellyousay 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I agree. The nose is far too short for a 2 foot Gator.
It either laid dormant in the sewer systems in Detroit or escaped out of some fools basement as an escaped exotic pet and flushed out by the recent rains to Erie, or has found the cooling pools by the nuk plant during the cold season and is been around for a short while. With so much luck it should be called ' Lucky ' fun fact: With all the pollution that is found in Erie, that will probably soon become it's demise....Or will it ?
When yall have em walking across your front yard you won't think they're so cute.
Especially when they're eating your Yorkie.
Would not bother me in the least.
Free guard dogs, you mean?
It was "once" their habitat. I've lived a good part of my life near these animals. Keep your distance, don't walk dogs or small children near shorelines in an area known to have these creatures around. They do move around and can climb even destroy fences. And for God's sake NEVER FEED THEM!
When I was a kid, decades ago, there was a newspaper report of a 'gator in the Thames River, connecting to Lake Erie by way of the Detroit River and Lake Saint Claire. It may not have been true, but this report makes me go "hmm."
I don't know why it's so unexpected to see a alligator in Michigan we do have them, before Michigan became populated with people this state was a swampland and in swamps you have alligators. Scientists have stated that American alligators can survive in temperatures of water at 40 Fahrenheit or below they can survive winters they go into a state of hibernation and they keep their noses above the ice in order to breathe, scientists say that alligators can survive in winter but if you look up specifically can alligators survive Michigan winter it claims the DNR says no but that makes no sense since people have seen large alligators here in Michigan they don't get that large over a 1-year period takes many years to get big and if it takes many years then they must do a damn good job at surviving through winter
Sorry you are wrong. They can survive short winters. They cannot survive long Michigan winters. They survive with their snouts above the ice to breath. However they cannot survive with 2 feet of snow on the ice. They would suffocate. They cannot move because they are cold blooded and those temperatures forget it.
Hahahaha, I live in Michigan also, You're full of it buddy. Gators do not survive the winter in MI. Nobody ever saw a large gator of many years in the wild in MI.
@@peach495 where do you live ? Detroit
@@Y2.903
Grew up in Detroit, Live in mid Michigan now. All my life here.
@@peach495 then you obviously have not been to the correct areas with alligators
A couple dozen get dumped every year. About a handful get spotted. No one ever believed. It’s just people regretting pets.
an alligator of that size is not a danger to any one, The Executive Director of Port Authority isn't too swift on alligators. The onlyone in danger is the alligator when winter comes.
Someone's pet got away.
"Wow, this is truly impressive! The sheer dedication and hard work that went into creating this project is outstanding. I can't help but feel inspired by the amount of passion that the creator poured into it. It's a wonderful example of what can be achieved when creativity is combined with perseverance. Bravo!"
Lochness Monster is next!
In a couple of decades, they will find it warm enough to start colonizing if they aren't already. Isn't crazy to see them in D.C. now and that's about as far north. Lakes don't even freeze now and a gator can already cope with a couple inches of ice on the water. They poke their snout out and stay under.
Here's something to chew on:
Everywhere a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird can go, so can the Nine-Banded Armadillo, so can the American Alligator, so can the Burmese Python.
So far, the Nine-Banded Armadillo is just shy of Chicago, and as climate change gets warmer, their expansion will eventually reach Toronto, where historical evidence of tropical Palm Trees used to flourish.
If all Liberals quit breathing things could change for the better in so many ways.
Would we still have seasons if there were no Liberals in the forest to see the snow? I'm going to guess..... "YES!" 😂😂😂
Have you ever got on Google and noticed for every cold place..... there is a hot place? 😮 And for every cool place..... there is a warm place?!? How many pets do you own? How much money do you spend on pet food? Just curious..... 🤨
And everything on this planet is experiencing transformation right now.
He's got about 2.5 months left to live.
It was Nessie - she's on vacation.
Some1 released their pet Alligator into lake
Poor little fella. People are just sick.