{"id":217582,"date":"2026-04-03T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217582\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:06:18","slug":"meet-cecile-the-croc-the-grande-dame-of-the-florida-everglades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217582\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Cecile the Croc, the grande dame of the Florida Everglades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 3, 2026 at 10:49 AM<\/p>\n<p>Cecile is believed to be about 18 years old Meet Cecile the Croc, the grande dame of the Florida Everglades  Meet the grande dame of the Florida Everglades.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Meet the grande dame of the Florida Everglades. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Naturalist Alison Josyln was exploring Shark Valley this week, when she spotted Cecile emerge from the swamp to get some sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was a bit harder for the female American crocodile to make her grand entrance, because water levels are so low at the moment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joslyn says Cecile is a star attraction at Shark Valley, and is named after a child who once visited the national park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cecile is believed to be about 18 years old and has been seen in and around Shark Valley for the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joslyn says she is the queen of the Lonely Hearts Club. Another crocodile has shown up at Shark Valley, but it\u2019s too young for mating.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 3, 2026 at 10:49 AM Cecile is believed to be about 18 years old Meet Cecile the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-217582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}