‘Snow gators are real.’ Video shows alligator ditching hot pond for Colorado snow

Many animals love to play in the snow, but have you ever seen a “snow gator”?

A video posted Wednesday on Facebook by Colorado Gator Farm shows that alligators can love the snow, too.

“Snow gators are real,” the gator farm in Mosca, Colorado,wrote in the post. “Our gators will sunbathe after it snows. Truly amazing animals.”

The reptile farm is on a geothermal pond that stays about 87 degrees year-round, the farm said on its website. Even in Colorado’s record-breaking snowfall, the gators chose to crawl out of the heated pool and onto the cold snow to catch some sun.

It wasn’t the only time alligators’ behavior caught people’s attention recently. Last week, a gator was roaming around in Connecticut, according to FOX61. In August, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources got reports of an alligator at a park, The Daily Nonpareil reported.

Officials in Idaho also wrangled a 6-foot alligator found under a trailer in August, the Idaho Statesman reported.

“That’s not a call we’ve ever received in Idaho,” Detective Gary Marang, a spokesperson for the Nampa Police Department, told the Statesman.

This story was originally published September 11, 2020 at 10:27 AM with the headline "‘Snow gators are real.’ Video shows alligator ditching hot pond for Colorado snow."