Marc
Lallanilla, Assistant Editor
Date: 11 March
2013 Time: 12:2
An alligator
stuck with the ungainly name "Mister Stubbs" may need a new moniker
now that his stump of a tail has been fitted with a lifelike prosthetic.
The alligator,
which lost his tail as a youth after a run-in with another gator, was brought
to the Phoenix Herpetological Society (PHS) in 2005 after he and 31 other
alligators were discovered by police as part of an illegal shipment of exotic
animals, the Arizona
Republic reports.
Inspired in
part by the film "Dolphin Tale," in which a dolphin is given an
artificial tail, a team of experts dove into the task of discovering the type
of tail a gator would need. No one had previously researched the center of
gravity, weight or buoyancy of an alligator tail.
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