The massive reptile was euthanized shortly after it was trapped near a highway exit.
The reptile was reportedly in shock when authorities arrived at the scene, walking in circles near the exit after apparently being hit in the snout by a passing vehicle. Although Vaughan managed to contain the animal by taping its snout shut and hoisting it onto a truck, the alligator couldn't sustain its injuries so it was later euthanized instead of being placed back into the wild.page shortly after it died.
Allie Gator may have been a massive reptile, but it still wasn't as big as the alligator captured in Florida just a few months before. A 12-foot, 750-pound reptile was found near an office parking lot in Jupiter in April. It took some wrangling, but responders managed to safely remove the large animal and relocate it.
One of the largest reptiles captured in Florida was a 1,000-pound alligator in Lake Okeechobee. Jim Howard, a pilot who enjoys landing alligators in his spare time, landed the 12-foot, half-ton animal off the lake in April 2018. It was the state's second-largest alligator recorded after a 13-foot, the 10-and-a-half-inches reptile was captured on Orange Lake in April 1989. That alligator weighed a whopping 1,043 pounds, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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