Record-Breaking Alligator On Display in Montgomery
The biggest American alligator ever caught in the wild is now on display.
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Mandy Stokes and her family fished the Stokes alligator out of a creek near Camden in Wilcox County. It took them nearly 5 hours to catch it last august. it is almost sixteen feet long and weighs 1,000 pounds. they say they never set out to break a world record and couldn’t believe it when they saw it out of the water.
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“Disbelief. When we pulled a tape measure over him and we realized how long he was and how long the previous state record was, it was just shock and awe,” said Mandy Stokes.Â
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The alligator will be on display at the Mann Center at the Montgomery Zoo through Sunday. After that, the family plans to store it and show it off at exhibitions.
