{"id":800577,"date":"2026-08-03T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800577\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:30:11","slug":"cleveland-county-officials-ask-for-help-locating-loose-caiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/800577\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland County officials ask for help locating loose caiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office asks for help finding loose caiman<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/21514b79-66e1-4a09-b958-b813b7b12050_1768014597.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Darian Curry\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CLEVELAND COUNTY, Okla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Authorities are asking for the public&#8217;s help in finding a caiman that got loose over the weekend in Cleveland County. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The caiman was reported loose near Sunnylane Estates at South Sunnylane Road and East Indian Hills Road. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">In a news release, the Cleveland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office encouraged people who live in that area to keep an eye on any pets and to call 911 if they see the animal. <\/p>\n<p>What is a caiman? <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/caiman-reptile-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">caiman<\/a> is a small-to-medium sized predatory reptile that belongs to the alligator family. There are several distinctive species native to Central and South America. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Caimans look very much like alligators and crocodiles, and they mostly live along the edges of rivers and other bodies of water. They are not native to Oklahoma. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office asks for help finding loose caiman CLEVELAND COUNTY, Okla. \u2014 Authorities are asking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6619,14144,339824,339825,85933,39884,124992,20872,9600,12205,1068,39887,79,48161,45717,201],"class_list":["post-800577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alligator","tag-animal","tag-caimen","tag-cleveland-county","tag-crocodile","tag-lizard","tag-loose","tag-norman","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-pets","tag-reptile","tag-science","tag-tulsa","tag-wild-animal","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}