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I know of the blue eyed white alligators discovered on the proprty of an electrical company in Louisiana and given to the Audabon Park Zoo, but I don't think they were the first ever found.
Louisiana??? And St. Augustine,Fla.
Paul McCarthy is right. Unless somebody pulls up some report from the 1700's, stating "in 1789, A Pigmy Chiefton, sitting on the banks of the Amazon, smoking peyote, reports seeing a white Alligator." And because, Paul "doesn't think they were the first ever found", I can only assume he is looking for that report as we speak. LOL
My best Paul, and we will await your findings. Brilliant research, is what history is about.
Wade
Shoot, I go out to change a radiator and I miss an easy one!
The electric company, LL&E still occasionally finds white hatchlings. They come to the Audubon zoo to be raised. After theat they are either kept for exhibit at zoo, Audubon aquarium or sent to a Louisiana gator farm called Golden Meadows. Every so often another zoo will request a loan of a white gator which Audubon grants for a specific amount of time and maybe a nice donation too.
Joey,
You were the first one I was going to disqualify. I got that picture from the Audubon publicity dept. when Ringling played there. I just thought you would be to busy sending pictures to Buckles instead of to me to notice.
My best friend,
Wade
Wade, I only send pictures to you and Buckles after 11pm when the boys are asleep and the elephants are down. One more white gator thing. They are not classed as albinos since their eyes are blue, brown or a combination of the two. They are classed like white tigers, lucistic or "white freaks".
Joey,
You are right. I remembered their eyes being a tanish/yellowish color. And I should have known better then to write "Albino" considering the white lion discussion. I wan't thinking. Thank you for the correction. What do you know of or what have you heard of the King Cheetah?
Wade Burck
Somewhere on the internet I saw a picture of a white alligator with red eyes. The San Diego Zoo once had albino bull frogs which had yellow skin and yellow eyes.
Paul,
The frogs would be lucistic as Joey stated, as are white turtles, etc. I am looking for some pictures of the "white zebras" that Hunt brothers had back in the 80's. White with Palomino strips.
Wade
Wade-Thanks for the answer. I remember a photograph in one of my high school biology text books of a mutant frog which was blue instead of green.
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