{"id":1026069,"date":"2022-03-19T09:06:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/19\/watch-alligator-chases-remote-controlled-boat-in-florida-retention-pond\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:06:34","slug":"watch-alligator-chases-remote-controlled-boat-in-florida-retention-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/19\/watch-alligator-chases-remote-controlled-boat-in-florida-retention-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Alligator chases remote-controlled boat in Florida retention pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alligator-chases-remote-controlled-boat-in-Florida-retention-pond.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 18 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Florida woman captured video of a playful alligator chasing a remote-controlled toy boat across the surface of a retention pond.<\/p>\n<p>The filmer, a producer for WJAX-TV, captured footage when the gator&#8217;s attention was grabbed by a neighbor&#8217;s remote-controlled boat in the Jacksonville retention pond.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video shows the gator chasing the boat as it zooms across the surface of the water.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether the alligator had simply confused the boat for a potential food source, but University of Tennessee at Knoxville researchers said in a 2015 study that playful behavior had been identified in alligators and other crocodiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18 (UPI) &#8212; A Florida woman captured video of a playful alligator chasing a remote-controlled toy boat across the surface of a retention pond. The filmer, a producer for WJAX-TV, captured footage when the gator&#8217;s attention was grabbed by a neighbor&#8217;s remote-controlled boat in the Jacksonville retention pond. Advertisement The video shows the gator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1026070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}