As Zoo Visitors Were Warned, 70 Coins Removed From Rare Alligator's Stomach - VAXA Post
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Date: 2024-03-01

As Zoo Visitors Were Warned, 70 Coins Removed From Rare Alligator's Stomach - VAXA Post

A US zoo has recovered 70 coins from the stomach of an alligator. Thibodaux, a 36-year-old uncommon leucistic American alligator with blue eyes and white skin, was the subject of the discovery. The finding was revealed by staff members at Omaha, Nebraska's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium while doing routine health examinations on their ten American alligators.

A warning has now been issued to visitors not to throw coins into any bodies of water at the zoo. "Any loose change can instead be turned in for a souvenir coin in one of the several machines around the zoo or in our coin wishing well located in the atrium of the Desert Dome," the zoo wrote on Facebook.

In response to remarks on the post, it was said that the creature consumed the money "in between cleanings" of its living space. It stated that the necessity for the same surgery to be performed on other alligators in its care was "likely".

All the coins were successfully removed from Thibodaux and he is back in his habitat. "With the help of his training, Thibodaux was anaesthetised and intubated to allow us to safely manage him during the procedure. A plastic pipe was placed to protect his mouth and safely pass the tools used to access the coins, such as a camera that helped us guide the retrieval of these objects," Christina Ploog, the vet who led the procedure, said.

Unlike albino alligators, which have pink eyes and total pigment loss, leucistic alligators are reptiles with the rarest genetic variety of the American alligator. A leucistic alligator was born at the end of the previous year in a Florida reptile park. The infant was derived from a nest of original leucistic alligators discovered in the marshes of Louisiana in 1987, making it the first solid white alligator in history.

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