Joe Rogan Experience #2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride · Aired Aug 6, 2026
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The American alligator was officially classified as an endangered species during the 1950s and 1960s.
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The American alligator was formally listed as endangered in 1967, a single-year action, not something that played out gradually across the 1950s and 1960s. The population crash that led to the listing did happen mostly during those decades because of unregulated hunting and habitat loss, but the actual classification itself was a 1967 event.
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Is it true that the American alligator was officially classified as an endangered species during the 1950s and 1960s?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The American alligator was formally listed as endangered in 1967, a single-year action, not something that played out gradually across the 1950s and 1960s. A guest said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride, aired Aug 6, 2026, at 1:18:17. The supporting source is biologicaldiversity.org, linked below.
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