Posted on 09/20/2019 11:53:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Officials are warning students to keep a distance from a Michigan school's pond after a caiman was spotted swimming loose in the water. Photo by ricke76/Pixabay.com
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Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Students and community members are being warned to keep a safe distance from a Michigan school pond, where an "alligator-type reptile" -- a caiman -- was spotted swimming.
Bedford Public Schools said a teacher spotted an "alligator-type reptile" swimming in the Biology Pond on the campus of Bedford Senior High School and Bedford Junior High School.
The district said experts identified the creature as a 3-foot caiman, a relative of the alligator.
Officials said arrangements are being made to remove the caiman from the pond, and students and community members are being warned to keep a safe distance from the water until the creature is relocated.
The district said caimans are not native to Michigan, but sometimes are kept as exotic pets.
Caimans are known for seeking cooler climes.
Like the Cayman Islands?.............
The little, local zoo is picking it up.
The Cayman Islands are named after the critters. It is just a different spelling. So if you want to buddy up with them, head south and swim.
Asylum laws protect it’s right to be here.
Now, where’s it’s free healthcare?
Perhaps cooler than what they might experience in South & Central America, but not Michigan. 8>)
....and Voter Registration....................
It must be a Republican since it doesn’t look as dangerous as a Democrat.
Well, they do have sharper teeth.................
A 3 foot alligator or cayman isactually a small animal as at that stage of growth it is mostly tail. When
i worked at a power plant in Florida as a security guard one of the things I had to do was shoo the gators off the parking lot at night.The grown ones didn’t go there and the babies of up to about 40 inches were silly looking because they were massive tails with very small bodies attached.
I occasionally have to stop going to and from work to let a gator cross the road..................
Jags 2 Caymans 0.......................
Those Porsche Caymans can be sneaky...
Are you the U-Boat Commander?...............
My daughter has to stop for bears occasionally. She rides a Honda Helix to work. She doesn’t worry about deer anymore since I put a deer whistle on her scoot. Those things work.
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