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An alligator jumped off a balcony more than 20-storeys high to escape being cooked and eaten.

CCTV footage shows a one-metre-long gator plummeting from a high-rise building in Shenzhen, southern China, on Monday.

Miraculously, its fall was broken by a shop’s canopy meaning it was able to survive his leap-of-faith.

The store owners recounted hearing a loud noise and rushed outside, only to be taken aback by the sight of a live alligator lying in front of them.

Police were able to locate the alligator’s owner, Mr Liu, who told them he was secretly keeping the alligator as a pet for over a decade – and was intended for consumption.

But it is still not known how the alligator was able to escape the flat as no one was home at the time.

Mr Liu expressed his apologies to the neighbours for the fright caused by the unexpected incident.

The building’s management is now looking for any other potentially dangerous animals being kept within the premises.

The alligator has since been taken into custody by the police, and the local fishery department is conducting an investigation into the matter.

Meanwhile an alligator found freezing in a New York city park has died in a ‘tragic case of animal abuse’.

The gator was discovered in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on February 19.

She was found swimming in the Prospect Park Lake on a morning where temperatures averaged around 37 degrees Fahrenheit.

The rangers said they believed the gator, who was a 4-foot long juvenile female, was somebody’s exotic pet that was abandoned in the park.

Her condition improved little over the course of the next two months, and she died at the end of April.

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