Giant Alligator Wrangled on Florida Beach: Video

An alligator measuring nearly 12 feet long was spotted in a beach's surf in Delray Beach, Florida, on Wednesday morning.

The City of Delray Beach shared a video that featured a slideshow of photos of the incident. According to the video caption, a contracted nuisance alligator trapper with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) was called to help remove the alligator, which was transferred to a farm.

Tammy Sapp, a spokesperson with FWC told Newsweek in an email the agency receives calls about nuisance alligators throughout the year because alligators are active and visible whenever the weather is warm.

Typically found in the southeast, the FWC said alligators prefer freshwater lakes and slow-moving rivers, but they may be found in brackish waters as well. They are rarely seen in saltwater.

"While alligators can tolerate salt water for a few hours or even days, they are primarily freshwater animals, living in swampy areas, rivers, streams, lakes and ponds," the National Ocean Service said.

The photos that cycled through the video show the alligator being removed from the water by several officials until it was brought to a truck with its mouth secured shut while it was being held in place.

The City of Delray noted that the police department and the fire rescue lifeguards also responded to the incident.

Ted White, the public information manager for the Delray Beach Police Department, told Newsweek in an email that one person called the police just after 7:30 in the morning.

When officials arrived, they found the gator out in the water.

"The alligator was calm until it was brought in along the shore," White said. "It put up a brief fight."

While it took about an hour for officials to remove the alligator from the beach, White said there were no injuries in the process.

Other alligators have been removed from places they were not supposed to be.

In September, one alligator was found "loitering" in a Wendy's parking lot but was removed by police and wildlife officials.

In August, a video showed a police officer removing an alligator that was found on a resident's property, though it appeared to have put up a fight as it squirmed under the officer's grasp.

In July, another alligator made itself comfortable in a pond next door to a family. North Carolina Wildlife monitored the alligator and decided not to remove it right away. The alligator was later removed by a private trapper.