Great Lakes Serpentarium takes in captured Belle Isle alligator – Detroit Free Press
The approximately 1.5-foot-long American alligator first seen on Belle Isle on Sept. 26 was captured by Steve Hart and Troy Keteyian on Oct. 1. She will now live with a number of alligators, snakes, turtles and other reptiles at 958 N. Newburgh Road in Westland.
Couple Michael Wilson and Kate Minnaar, the co-owners of the serpentarium, said Fáfnir is less than 2 years old and was most likely a released pet.
When Wilson first heard that an alligator was on Belle Isle, he said he thought it was possible but unlikely for someone to catch it. The farthest North American alligators typically live is North Carolina, Minnaar said, and if Fáfnir stayed outside, she would almost certainly die during Michigan's cold winter months.
"When they said they caught it, I was absolutely amazed," Wilson said. "At that size, they're extremely fast, and usually they jump in the water and they're gone within seconds."
Fáfnir gets her name from Norse mythology, Wilson said. Hart, whom Wilsonhad previously met at a reptile show, named her.
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