American Alligator found swimming in Lake Michigan.
A 4-foot American Alligator was rescued on Monday 8 October by Lake Michigan after someone reported it while swimming near Waukegan, Illinois (USA).
It is not every day that someone reports an Alligator in Lake Michigan.
Waukegan Police Animal Control and Larsen Marine Service Inc. rescued the Alligator, who was transferred to the Wildlife Discovery Center in Lake Forest, Illinois. Alligators generally live in fresh water from North Carolina to Texas. Reptiles are more active when temperatures are 82 to 92 degrees, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. They stop feeding when the temperature drops below about 70 degrees and become dormant below 55 degrees. Lake Michigan’s temperature was 63 degrees.
The municipal police will investigate whether the Alligator was found to have been abandoned, which is a crime, city spokesman told the Chicago Tribune. Today fewer people have exotic animals due to the increase in state regulations and authorizations.
Defending animal species in extinction is a duty for all of us: their well-being derives from the global balance of the planet.
2 million animal and plant species, but it is estimated that on Earth, in the most intact and inaccessible habitats, such as tropical forests or sea depths, there could even be between 5 and 100 million.
The Maison Tardini which over the years has endorsed the continuity and protection of the American Alligator.
Of fundamental importance is the CITES label, the world organisation that manages the species conservation through regulations that establish its numbers, following standards that are biological, not commercial.
This Planet is the only one we have!
We must protect it!