A blue-eyed reptile slithered out of its shell and into the historical past books as one of many extraordinarily uncommon births of a white-skinned, leucistic alligator.
There are solely seven of its sort on this planet, with three of them situated at Gatorland Orlando.
Leucistic alligators are the rarest genetic variation within the American alligator species.
“That is past uncommon. It’s completely extraordinary,” Mark McHugh, president and CEO of Gatorland, stated in an announcement.
Gatorland is asking for assist from the general public in naming the reptile, which is descended from a nest of leucistic alligators discovered within the swamps of Louisiana in 1987.