![]() “Early on, I would help feed her,” Liz shared with us recently. Many adults have memories of visiting her as children, possibly on a tour led by now-retired humane educator and 40-year Pasadena Humane employee Liz Baranowski. Area residents still regularly ask after her. In the days before social media and influencers, she became a local celebrity with legions of fans. ![]() So, Tina was provided a habitat at Pasadena Humane complete with a pond and waterfall, and for 18 years, she lived alongside the dog kennels. While we successfully found placement for her companions, we came up empty-handed after a long and extensive search for other accommodations to suit an alligator’s needs. She was part of a group of animals surrendered to us by folks running an unpermitted traveling wildlife exhibition. Zoo and is a companion to fellow American alligator, Reggie, on the right. “There is a significant difference in size between males and females, and our visitors might get lucky and witness some of the amazing behaviors these crocodilians display as a pair.Tina, left, who originally came to Pasadena Humane in 1998, now lives at the L.A. Zoo has almost always had male and female pairs of alligators on display since it opened 50 years ago, and now we are lucky to have a pair on exhibit again,” Recchio said. The pair aren’t meant to breed, but guests can continue to learn about the reptiles. Zoo and attempt to live with Reggie, zoo officials said. At 7-feet-long, Tina outgrew her habitat at the humane society, and a decision was made she would move to the L.A. She came to Pasadena in 1998 as part of a traveling wildlife education program. And she and Reggie seem to be sharing each other’s space, even getting close. Zoo last August after spending 18 years as a resident of the Pasadena Humane Society, Zoo officials said. Augustine’s Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida.īut Tina may be the one. But the two didn’t take to one another and Cajun Kate later was moved St. In 2010, an alligator known as Cajun Kate was introduced to Reggie, who had never before had a roommate - male or female. Tina is Reggie’s second attempt at companionship. He’d been abandoned in the 53-acre lake by a prior owner who’d been illegally keeping him as a pet. Reggie became a media sensation in 2005, after he was first spotted in Lake Machado in Harbor City. Zoo officials said they can tell they are getting along because “they can be seen swimming, floating, and sunning themselves on the rocks together.” But, Reggie and Tina have come a long way since August, and we can already see how positively guests are responding to the fact that Reggie now has a roommate.” “It was a labor intensive process helping these two alligators grow comfortable with each other, and it required a lot of patience from the animal keepers as they kept a close eye on the pair. “This is really the best case scenario when introducing two alligators who are used to living alone,” Ian Recchio, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Los Angeles Zoo,” said in a statement. But now they are happily sharing the same habitat after recently awaking from brumation, a hibernation-like state that cold-blooded animals utilize during very cold weather. They didn’t see eye-to-eye initially, the zoo said. ![]() The Los Angeles Zoo announced Wednesday that after moving Tina, a female American alligator, into Reggie’s bachelor pad in August, the two are getting along. Reggie the Alligator’s lonely days are finally over.
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