{"id":2626,"date":"2026-03-03T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:12:20","slug":"american-alligator-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/crocodylia\/american-alligator-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"American Alligator in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my opinion, this is a very underrated reptile endemic to the United States. This <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/crocodylia\/alligatoridae\/alligator\/mississippiensis\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"717\">American Alligator<\/a> was lounging around, as they tend to do, in <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/tag\/florida\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"362\">Florida<\/a> several years ago and let me get some photos. Growing up in the Western US, I&#8217;ll rarely skip an opportunity to get some photos or see one any time I&#8217;m visiting their range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9362-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9362-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9362-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9362-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9362-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9362-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my opinion, this is a very underrated reptile endemic to the United States. This American Alligator was lounging around, as they tend to do, in Florida several years ago and let me get some photos. Growing up in the Western US, I&#8217;ll rarely skip an opportunity to get some photos or see one any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716,664,663,717],"tags":[362,718,235],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alligator","category-alligatoridae","category-crocodylia","category-mississippiensis","tag-florida","tag-water","tag-endemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}