Gators on the Yangtze

REUTERS/Jianan Yu (CHINA)

Yangtze alligators swim in a lake at the Chinese Alligator Propagation Research Center in Xuancheng, east China's Anhui province, June 12, 2007. Chinese experts have warned that inbreeding could harm efforts to save the country's endangered Yangtze alligator, already decimated by environmental pollution in its native habitat, state media reported.