Escaped animals
Elephant seals rest at their shoreline birthing grounds below Hearst Castle. Seals’ encounters with motorists on
Where blubber meets the road (Stephen Osman / Los Angeles Times)
Reggie the alligator eluded capture for almost two years while living in a Los Angeles city park. His owners decided he had grown too large to keep as a pet, so they dropped him in in Lake Machado in 2005.
Reggie managed to evade and befuddle a constant parade of would-be gator wranglers before he was finally snared with a dog-catcher’s pole in May 2007 and taken to the L.A. Zoo. Reggie’s taste for freedom was strong, however, and in August 2007 he busted out of his enclosure for a couple of hours. After he was recaptured, his pen was modified to make it harder for the gator to escape.
Reggie the alligator no longer lonely (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times)
