Alligator operated on at zoo after 70 coins were identified in its stomach. Visitors threw coins into a pool in the enclosure and the animal swallowed them.
The specimen, a 36-year-old leucistic alligator named Thibodaux, was successfully operated on on February 15. Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium asked visitors not to throw “coins into all the water points” of the establishment following the events. A control X-ray was carried out at the end of the operation and confirmed that no more traces of metal were found in the animal's body.