Posted on 02/21/2017 10:41:26 AM PST by Red Badger
“Donny” the orange alligator suns near a pond in Calabash, N.C. Nick Andrews
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An unusual gator dubbed “Donny” by residents is drawing attention in Calabash, N.C.
The alligator is ready for Halloween, as it’s the color of a pumpkin ... a dull orange instead of the usual green color. Nick Andrews of Little River snapped some photos of the unusual reptile while visiting his father-in-law in Calabash Lakes Home Community.
Another orange alligator was spotted earlier this month in Hanahan, S.C. Jay Butfiloski with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said in a USA Today report that the color may come from where the animal spent the winter, such as a rusty steel pipe.
Experts say that orange alligators will eventually shed their skin and likely return to a normal shade of green.
Another orange gator!................
They’re just being sneaky, “evolving” scales the same color as red mud while they plot their inland invasion due to global warming. They’re growing camouflage for the Piedmont.
I had never heard of gators in North Carolina before, so I looked at a map. Calabash, N.C is just across and adjoining the South Carolina border just north of Myrtle Beach.
I was stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC, by Jacksonville, NC. We had alligators on base.....................
Dats raycist!
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Donny the OrangeGator.
He’s about to take a bite out of crime!
Ready to clean the swamp.
Calabash is famous for its fried seafood dinners...Calabash style is pretty well known.
maybe this one had too much gator ade....
There are alligators all the way up to the Great Dismal Swamp bordering North Carolina and Virginia. The further north you get, the more sparse they become and the smaller they are, but they’re there.
....that’s what happens when they eat cheese doodles while watching porn.
Mocking Trump’s hair?
As a UF alum, call me when a blue one crawls up next to this one.
Alliginger.
When one of those orange critters shows up with blue accent stripes, my theory of UF students spray painting slower moving gators (during cool weather) in school colors will be confirmed.
Get busy, Gainesville students. But stay safe.
If you see a white one then it obviously migrated from Canada
Tomorrow, we’ll see a blue one. THEN, the jig is up!!
It wasn’t me!.................
That’s a CROC!
It’s a henna-gator.
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