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Painter finds alligator head in Yorkshire
Friday, 13 November 2009
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A painter and decorator described his shock at finding the severed head of an alligator while he was out walking his dogs.
Peter Lumb, 59, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, found the skull and a section of the reptile's jaw while he was walking his two border collies on a hillside in the Crosland Moor area.
The bones were checked out by experts at Manchester Museum, where his daughter Catherine works, and found to be that of an American alligator, officially an alligator mississippiensis, which is usually found in the south-eastern United States.
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Never even heard about one being missing from the southern States. There'll be a few red faces in America trying to explain this.Sorry, I don't mean the Indians whose faces are already red. I mean people whose faces are not normally that colour, but can turn red. I'd better stop-I'm digging a hole here.
Posted by Daniel | 14.11.09, 00:41 GMT
No big deal here at all. Dried heads and claws of farmed alligators are sold in souneneir shops all over southern Florida. Just another tacky tourist buy that someone has thrown out.
Posted by Little Mr Sunshine | 13.11.09, 11:28 GMT