The count of local alligators found this week on Long Island and in New York City has reached five.
The fourth of a quartet discovered on the Island has been given a home at a Riverhead aquarium, according to local reports.
It was found Monday at a Wading River golf course.
Other gators were found on successive days about 55 miles west, in Baldwin.
The spate of loose gators started a week ago in Mastic.
Experts believe reptile lovers were raising them as pets, but abandoned them as the creatures grew large.
The week’s gator-wrangling total comes to five with a Big Apple capture. Police removed a pet alligator from a Brooklyn home on Monday.
The Suffolk County SPCA warns that exotic animals make bad companions, and may also pose serious health risks.