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A rare
albino
American Alligator
(
Alligator mississippiensis
), a resident of the
California Academy of Sciences
in
San Francisco
,
California
. Typically olive, brown, gray or nearly black in color, the species is native only to
wetlands
of the
Southern United States
. American Alligators are nearly twice as large as the other extant alligator species, the
Chinese Alligator
.
Photo:
Mila Zinkova
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