New Zoo trip, part 6: White Gator

[dragoness_e]

New Zoo trip, part 1
New Zoo trip, part 2
New Zoo trip, part 3
New Zoo trip, part 4
New Zoo trip, part 5

Some of the Audubon Nature Institute's more unusual exhibits are the white alligators. The nest was found over twenty years ago in the swamp with the baby white alligators just hatching out. We have no idea if they breed true, because all the hatchlings found were male--and these are the only white alligators that have ever been seen. They are leucistic, not albinos.


Big white alligator



Daddy, what's that?



Looking down at the same alligator



I know it hasn't moved, but it still isn't plastic



Bees!



A couple of very active beehives.

Comments

[lunatron.livejournal.com]

Do they have blue eyes?

[dragoness-e.livejournal.com]

Supposedly they do, but it's hard to see an alligator's iris from across the room in dim light.

[jill-dragon.livejournal.com]

They're probably all male because reptile gender is determined by the temperature of the egg. I think as you increase the temperature you get increasingly more males or something like that, could be the other way around.