Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens was quoted by MSNBC as saying he probably "crawled up on a chain link fence" and used his weight to push it down in order to make his escape. Pretty smart move by that alligator.

Finding the lovesick alligator won't be easy. The nature center is near the Arkansas river and on the edge of swamps and bayous. There are plenty of his cousins in those waters, too.

Worse, they never put a microchip into him, so any technological means of tracking him can't be used. Stephens said they wanted to keep the center "as natural as possible," thus the decision to not put any implants into him.