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TexasTowelie

(112,167 posts)
Sun May 24, 2015, 10:15 PM May 2015

World's biggest American alligator caught by Alabama family goes on display

The largest American alligator ever caught - which broke a world record - can now be viewed in an Alabama museum.

The mammoth beast, which measured 15 feet and 9 inches long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds, was captured last August by five members of the Stokes family in Mill Creek, Al.com reported.

The Stokes alligator has been mounted and put on display at the Montgomery Zoo's Mann Wildlife Learning Museum.

Keith Francher's alligator earlier held the Alabama state record. That alligator measured 14 feet and 2 inches long, and weighed 838 pounds.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3094393/World-s-biggest-American-alligator-caught-Alabama-family-goes-displa.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

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World's biggest American alligator caught by Alabama family goes on display (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2015 OP
Mounted? What were these people thinking? Mounted? haikugal May 2015 #1
Pathetic Isn't it montanacowboy May 2015 #2
Never seen secha thing bafor. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #3

haikugal

(6,476 posts)
1. Mounted? What were these people thinking? Mounted?
Sun May 24, 2015, 10:19 PM
May 2015

They killed the biggest American Aligator? Did the world go nuts while I was in the barn?

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