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Mystic, the first leucistic alligator born to humans, has a $50,000 new habitat at Gatorland built specifically for her and her brother Mayhem, the wildlife park said.
A leucistic rock dove. Both the eyes and legs are still of the normal colour. Leucism (/ ˈ l uː s ɪ z əm,-k ɪ z-/) [2] [3] [4] is a wide variety of conditions that result in partial loss of pigmentation in an animal—causing white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales, or cuticles, but not the eyes. [4]
An extremely rare – and extremely cute – leucistic white alligator has been born at Gatorland, the Orlando park announced Thursday in a news release.
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A leucistic American alligator at Gatorland American alligators are currently listed as least concern by the IUCN Red List , [ 2 ] even though from the 1800s to the mid-1900s, they were being hunted and poached by humans unsustainably.
Gatorland is a 110-acre (45 ha) theme park and wildlife preserve in Florida, located along South Orange Blossom Trail south of Orlando.It was founded in 1949 by Owen Godwin on former cattle land, [1] [2] and is privately owned by his family.
An extremely rare white leucistic alligator has been born at a Florida reptile park. The 19.2-inch (49 cm) female slithered out of its shell and into the history books as one of a few known ...
An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae in the order Crocodilia. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains.