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July 14, 1916

A watchman at the National Zoological Park reports sighting an alligator in Rock Creek. According to a newspaper account, “The Head Keeper, with several assistants, turned out promptly and after a rather lively chase through the water an alligator about three feet long was captured and transferred to the tank where others of his kind are kept.”

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Posted: 14 July 2010
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.