i just thought i'd provide a few links and see what you guys thought about the subject...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/lege...-alligators.htm

http://www.unmuseum.org/sgator.htm

http://nyc24.jrn.columbia.edu/2001/issue04...ry01/page2.html

http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf009/sf009p07.htm

Alligators can be found in the sewers. it just finds a way in.

yah but i was wondering about alligators living in sewers, maybe for many years...

i mean there are stories of alligatos in new york swers and such...

i know they are thought to be urban legends, i just like the idea that it could happen...

Any alligator that did get in a sewer wouldn't survive for very long. The sewer would make a poor habitat for them.

well if they were down there from being very young, couldn't they adapt to the conditions?

i mean alligatos have been around miliions and millions of years and surely they've had to adapt to worse conditions...cold, heat etc..

Nope, I think they would die before they could adapt. Reptiles often need very specific conditions to survive. They need sunlight and many other things. A baby alligator is pretty fragile, they can't just live anywhere.

They survive in the sewers by eating all the flushed goldfish.

theres not much meat on a goldfish...