{"id":5882,"date":"2023-03-08T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2023-03-08T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:50:01","slug":"alligator-reportedly-taken-from-texas-zoo-as-a-baby-is-returned-nearly-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/?p=5882","title":{"rendered":"Alligator Reportedly Taken From Texas Zoo As A Baby Is Returned Nearly 20 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 8-foot alligator, which was allegedly removed from a Texas zoo nearly 20 years ago while still in an egg or hatchling, has been returned to the park after it was discovered living illegally in the backyard of a home near Austin, according to authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators were at a property in rural Caldwell County for an unrelated incident when they saw the alligator in a pen, Texas Game Wardens spokeswoman Jen Shugert said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A woman on the property told investigators that she had taken an alligator egg nearly 20 years ago when she was volunteering at a zoo, according to Shugert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Although there was a backyard habitat for the alligator, it had outgrown the pen because it was nearly 8 feet long,&#8221; Shugert said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once wildlife agency officials discovered the woman couldn&#8217;t meet the requirements for proper permits to keep the alligator, a team went to the property, captured the reptile, and brought it to Animal World &amp; Snake Farm Zoo, its original home, according to the zoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 8-foot alligator, which was allegedly removed from a Texas zoo nearly 20 years ago while still in an egg or hatchling, has been returned to the park after it was discovered living illegally in the backyard of a home near Austin, according to authorities. Investigators were at a property in rural Caldwell County for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[1872,1874,1873,1871,1611,1771],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-20-years-later","tag-alligator","tag-returned","tag-taken","tag-texas","tag-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5884,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions\/5884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miaminewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}