http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0620_030620_cavecrocs.html

Alligators and all reptiles need copius amounts of sun to animate them b/c they are cold-blooded. Without it, they would grow lethargic and die. Also, sunlight is vital in their ability to obtain adequate Vitamin D (as it is with humans to a far lesser extent). Without it, their bones would grow weak and deformed. I have personal experience with this because I had a pet turtle as a boy, and it didn’t get adequate sunlight so it’s shell grew deformed. BUT, I got it a full-spectrum lightbulb, and it recovered. WHEW.

As opposed to finding out that there was no Mr. Conduluci and this was merely a newspaper tall tale, which is often heard in explaining these accounts, the New York Times tracked down a living eyewitness from the 1935 event, no easy task. And re-interviewed Mr. Daly.

Look at the record, please, and you will see this is not just one isolated incident, but there is a tapestry of events that underlie these sightings, findings, and killings of alligators in New York City’s past and modern eras.

Loren Coleman

Here’s what one academic paper observed about the normal conditions on an alligator farm:

“Alligators were kept at a constant ambient temperature of 32 C in water-filled igloo-shaped or rectangular concrete pens, which on average held approximately 200 animals of approximately the same size and age. The igloo-shaped pens had 848–897 l of water and the rectangular pens had 799–3,464 l of water. Pens were kept dark and completely enclosed with the exception of narrow gaps around the entry door for feeding or maintenance. Pens were provided with chlorine-treated well water that was drained and refilled three times a week. Alligators were maintained on a diet of ground beef and alligator chow.”

(Source: Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 41(1), 2005, pp. 96-106; http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/content/full/41/1/96)

Alligator farmers learned long ago that alligators grow faster and are healthier if grown for their meat in darkened pens.

Consider this, alligators outlived the dinosaurs by being extremely flexible in a variety of living conditions. Sewers, filled with plentiful food, such as rats, plus rather warm temperatures in watery settings, do not sound too wonderful by human standards, but for alligators, it’s rather close to gator heaven.

~ Loren Coleman

They like repeating again and again and again the “Vitamin D” thing. Perhaps that is true, but again the gator was seen by kids kicking snow from a grate, in short it gets light from above. Then it has all the heat from hot water flushed down, tons to eat and a whole stew of chemicals, chiefly that MAN’S diet is spiked with Vitamin D and many others because we ourselves are kept animals to work for the elite and don’t get a fraction the sun we should get either. So all these vitamins (often toxic waste byproduct) go through our system and get flushed down the toilet, and any homeless person they eat is also full of vitamin D from milk and the ‘cheap’ foodstuffs.

But they’ll whine; “Someone PUT it THERE”…

And, uh, huh, that’s right- But it doesn’t “Win” the despicable fake intellectual snits the argument. The whole thing about “Gators in the Sewers” is that they are unnaturally put there.

National Geographic News: Investigating Africa’s Mysterious Cave Crocodiles
June 20, 2003
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0620_030620_cavecrocs.html

And do we know if the gators were always inside? Or hung out part time at the exits of sewer pipes? This particular gator could have just walked in that morning and caught that day in the sewer.