Rare leucistic alligator approaches caretaker for snack
- 5 years ago
A friendly leucistic alligator Trezos, approaches its caretaker Savannah Boan, a Crocodilian Enrichment Coordinator, in Orlando, Florida.
Trezos is seen on last Friday (October 4) in a new habitat called White Alligator Swamp in Gatorland, the Alligator Capital of the World since 1949.
"White Alligator Swamp is specially designed for light-sensitive albino and leucistic alligators. Savannah Boan, our Crocodilian Enrichment Coordinator, went in to give Trezos (one of 12 leucistic alligators in the world) a snack of both fish & chicken", the filmer said.
Albinism is a condition in which there is an absence of Melanin, whereas a leucism is only a partial loss of pigmentation, which can make the animal have white or patchily colored skin, hair, or feathers, like the palish yellow alligator.
Trezos is seen on last Friday (October 4) in a new habitat called White Alligator Swamp in Gatorland, the Alligator Capital of the World since 1949.
"White Alligator Swamp is specially designed for light-sensitive albino and leucistic alligators. Savannah Boan, our Crocodilian Enrichment Coordinator, went in to give Trezos (one of 12 leucistic alligators in the world) a snack of both fish & chicken", the filmer said.
Albinism is a condition in which there is an absence of Melanin, whereas a leucism is only a partial loss of pigmentation, which can make the animal have white or patchily colored skin, hair, or feathers, like the palish yellow alligator.