Exotic Incident #1042

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Reggie, the Los Angeles Zoo’s 7-1/2-foot, 114-pound alligator escaped from his enclosure by scaling a 5-foot wall adjacent to a chain-link fence. He was found near a loading dock and returned to his habitat without incident. Reggie had followed a path that led him past a zoo gift shop. Fortunately he was found just prior to the zoo’s scheduled opening time. Corrective measures were taken to keep Reggie from scaling the wall again. Reggie was believed to be an abandoned ex-pet, whose owner dumped him in a lake after he grew too large. He had eluded capture at the lake for two years prior to May 2007 when he was finally corralled, and later brought to the Los Angeles Zoo.