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Tom Callan reporting Visitors from Louisiana have found a home up at the University of Utah.
The biology lab at the university is studying how the alligators use their muscles to manipulate their lungs. "We've got around 50, from babies up to a few years old," said doctoral student T.J. Uriona.
Uriona says the alligators are a gift from the Rockefeller Rufuge in Louisiana, and some arrived as alligator eggs. But do they like Utah? "They probably like it better than where they would have gone, which is these animals would have been given to the slaughter houses," he said.
Uriona says if they can't find a home for the gators, they will be dissected.
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