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"The Prospect Park Lake is a Brooklyn treasure + home to park wildlife, but not a safe place to release animals," the park wrote on Twitter recently.
"The Prospect Park Lake is a Brooklyn treasure + home to park wildlife, but not a safe place to release animals," the park wrote on Twitter recently. (New York City Parks Department / Getty Images / Dustin Dis / Mary Beth Artz)

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Alligator, Eels, Ducks: An Abandoned Prospect Park Pet Retrospective

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