A woman out for a run along the Charles in Boston couldn't believe her eyes on Tuesday morning — floating on the water was a little reptile.

"I looked a little bit closer and I was like, 'Oh my gosh! That's a baby alligator!" Whitney Lieberman told NBC10 Boston.

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She took some video of the animal encounter, just a crawl away from the Hatch Memorial Shell along the Esplanade.

"I was so caught off guard that I didn't think to grab anyone else and say is anyone else seeing what I'm seeing here," Lieberman said.

Animal educator Joseph Kenney, of Joe's Crazzy Critters, said the video does show an American alligator, and said it's not dangerous, though the cold weather in Boston is dangerous to the animal.

And after he

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