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| [[Image:Sewer gator.jpg|thumb|right|A model of an alligator emerging from a [[sewer manhole]] in a shopping center]] | [[Image:Sewer gator.jpg|thumb|right|A model of an alligator emerging from a [[sewer manhole]] in a shopping center]] |
| A '''sewer alligator''' is an [[alligator]] that lives in sewers. These accounts are mostly fictional and are rare to encounter.<ref name=truth /> | A '''sewer alligator''' is an urban legend and myth centered around [[alligator|alligators]] which lives in sewers, in areas which an alligator would not typically be found in, such as [[New York City]] or [[Paris]]. These accounts are mostly fictional and are rare to encounter.<ref name=truth /> |
| Stories date back to the late 1920s and early 1930s; in most instances they are part of [[urban legend|contemporary legend]]. These myths are based upon reports of [[alligator]] sightings in rather unorthodox locations, in particular [[New York City]]. | Stories date back to the late 1920s and early 1930s; in most instances they are part of [[urban legend|contemporary legend]]. |
| ''The New York Times'' reports the city rescues 100 alligators per year, some directly from homes where they are kept as illegal pets (which can be legally ordered online in other states and are legal to mail when small), and some from outside (where they can attract considerable attention) though mostly above-ground.<ref name=truth>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/nyregion/alligators-sewers-new-york.html |title=The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York |author=Corey Kilgannon |date=26 Feb 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> | ''The New York Times'' reports the city rescues 100 alligators per year, some directly from homes where they are kept as illegal pets (which can be legally ordered online in other states and are legal to mail when small), and some from outside (where they can attract considerable attention) though mostly above-ground.<ref name=truth>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/nyregion/alligators-sewers-new-york.html |title=The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York |author=Corey Kilgannon |date=26 Feb 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> |
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