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'Beyond rare' white alligator born at Florida park
UPI ^
| DEC. 7, 2023 / 2:09 PM
| By Ben Hooper
Posted on 12/07/2023 1:12:08 PM PST by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK...................
Dec. 7 (UPI) -- An alligator park in Florida announced the rare hatching of a solid white leucistic alligator at the facility.
Gatorland Orlando announced in a Facebook post that the hatchling is the first solid white alligator to be documented since a nest of leucistic gators were discovered in Louisiana about 36 years ago.
"This is beyond rare, it is absolutely extraordinary and the first one in the world," the post said.
Park officials said only seven leucistic alligators are known to still survive in the world, and three are housed at Gatorland.
Leucism is a rare genetic condition in alligators. The condition "causes white coloration, but they often have patches or splotches of normal coloration on their skin. Without the darker skin pigmentation, they can't have direct sunlight for long periods of time because they sunburn easily," Gatorland said.
Leucistic alligators are different from albino alligators, which completely lack pigment and have pink eyes instead of the bright blue eyes sported by their leucistic counterparts.
The female baby, and her normal-colored brother, will go on public display early next year, the park said.
TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: gatorland; genetic; leucism; orlando
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To: dfwgator; TexasGator; gator; EEGator
White Gator Ping!........................
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:12:47 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:14:19 PM PST
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
To: Red Badger
It’s appropriating green culture!
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:14:21 PM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
To: Red Badger
i remember the louisiana zoo had 3 or 4 of them
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:14:53 PM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: Red Badger
I was fortunate enough to see an albino alligator 🐊 once, at a zoo in Arizona.
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:17:09 PM PST
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: teeman8r
apparently this is an offspring of two of the white gators from 36 years ago... not the first in the world though.
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:17:51 PM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: Red Badger; dfwgator
He should go to a bank.
They’ll give him free money!
He won’t even have to pay it back.
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:17:53 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Red Badger
Probably a great omen to the Seminoles.
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:19:09 PM PST
by
fruser1
To: No name given
They have one in New Orleans Audubon Aquarium...................Full grown........
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:21:36 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Albinos are rare in both crocks and gators.
Albinos in other species are more common.
For example deer. Although they do have a short lifespan.
5.56mm
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:21:43 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
To: Red Badger
About a foot long...
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:21:58 PM PST
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: teeman8r
New Orleans Audubon Aquarium has one............
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:22:46 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: SaveFerris
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:25:14 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:25:45 PM PST
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: dfwgator
Few probably remember that
It was way back when Saturday Night Live was occasionally funny.
Decades and decades ago
Cars were cool back then. America was free...
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:28:25 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Red Badger
Has anyone made the gator aware of its privilege yet?
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:31:39 PM PST
by
Restless
To: teeman8r
Article says it is the very first leucistic albino ever, someone is wrong here.
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:35:35 PM PST
by
Spacetrucker
(George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
To: teeman8r
Correction; it is the very first SOLID WHI
TE leucistic ever.
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:38:09 PM PST
by
Spacetrucker
(George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
To: Spacetrucker
well in one article they say this is the offspring of the louisiana swamp nest of white gators... so perhaps it is the first of the pairing of white gators... in bred of course...
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posted on
12/07/2023 1:38:43 PM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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