The elligator's normal diet consists primarily of unassuming humans such as office workers and apartment dwellers (and their pets, if present). Much like his distant relatives, the reptiles, he does not need to feed often and this ironically is what makes him so insidious and difficult to detect. An elligator may operate reliably for months or years, transporting passengers to their desired floors, with almost no sign of being anything other than an ordinary lift. Unpredictably he becomes so hungry at which point the elligator will gobble up the first (usually solitary) person that naively enters his maw. The hapless victim is quickly digested, leaving almost no traces except a pen or mobile phone dropped in terror.