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Expert: Pond Creature Probably Dead
Sightings Last Summer Closed Jayhawker Ponds
POSTED: 1:58 pm MST March 6,
2008
UPDATED: 4:30 pm MST March 6,
2008
At least one expert thinks the large reptile spotted at a pond in Loveland last summer has probably died.Loveland officials closed Jayhawker Pond and a 30-acre recreation area last July. A Loveland boy who was fishing there said something lunged at him."We were getting ready to fish and all of a sudden something big, greenish-black, jumped out of the water and tried to get onto the dock," Andrew Kapono had said.
Other residents reported seeing the giant reptile in the waters, describing it as a 7-foot-long creature.The Colorado Division of Wildlife set up traps, but never caught anything.It's thought the animal was likely a caiman someone raised as a pet, then dumped when it got too big.One zoologist said if it's a caiman, it could survive on the ice, but probably not the winter in a pond.
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