{"id":133443,"date":"2025-08-10T04:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133443\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T04:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:15:50","slug":"nearly-300-pound-alligator-captured-at-fort-worth-area-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133443\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 300-pound alligator captured at Fort Worth-area lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 10-foot-long alligator was removed from Eagle Mountain Lake by Texas Parks and Wildlife and Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge personnel on Thursday morning, according to a county commissioner\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The adult male alligator weighed in at 291.8 pounds and was 10 feet, 7 inches long. Lerrin Johnson, a Texas Parks and Wildlife spokesperson, said it had been spotted multiple times in the area before officials were able to capture it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">County Commissioner Manny Ramirez shared a video of the allIgator on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was measured, tagged and relocated to \u201ca protected, more remote location,\u201d Johnson said. The relocation is part of the permitted research at the Fort Worth Nature Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The nature center has been researching alligators native to Fort Worth for the past three years. Part of that research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/state\/texas\/article311494394.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:capturing, tagging and monitoring;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">capturing, tagging and monitoring<\/a> the animals. There are about 40 tagged alligators at the nature center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Johnson said finding an alligator within the proximity presented a valuable opportunity for the researchers to better understand the species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Service Journalism Reporter Ella Gonzales contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 10-foot-long alligator was removed from Eagle Mountain Lake by Texas Parks and Wildlife and Fort Worth Nature&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,59722,80759,7371,7372,80760,19267,358,42629,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-133443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-county-commissioner","10":"tag-eagle-mountain-lake","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-lerrin-johnson","14":"tag-manny-ramirez","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-parks-and-wildlife","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115002539290828726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}