"Cocodrilo naranja" descubierto por mujer de 70 años

ORIGINAL: Discovery
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Sylvia Mythen, a 70-year-old grandmother from Venice, Fl, has discovered what appears to be the world's first orange alligator. Now, whether the alligator is orange or not due to genetics is rather questionable. All I know is that I don't want to get close enough to find out!

Another case of orange crocodile with a possible reason:

I've been tangoed! Crocodile turns orange after chewing through pipe filled with tannins

ORIGINAL: Daily Mail

Snappy the bad-tempered salt water crocodile got a little more than he'd bargained for when he decided a pipe in his tank would make a tasty meal.

Nice tan mate: According to owner Tracey Sandstrom, who runs Roaming Reptiles in Melbourne, Australia Snappy ate part of a filter in his pool which allowed red algae to flourish turning him orange.

Crocked: Bad-tempered Snappy now has a bright orange tan to match his fiery temperament 

The salt-water croc has no one to blame for his colour transformation but himself

The pampered croc from Melbourne, Australia, turned a bright shade of orange after it turned out to contain tannins produced by a type of red algae. 

Owner Tracey Sandstrom from Roaming Reptiles believes Snappy had chewed through a filter a few weeks earlier which caused the algae to flourish.

She said: 'I think it caused the pH levels in his water to soar which has led to the change in colour.'

Cranky Snappy, who sleeps in his own heated pool at night and is 2.6m long, became infamous after biting Tracey during a reptile show last year.

She is now looking to sell him as he has become too dangerous for her to handle.

She added: 'He's the prettiest croc I've got, and he's such a lovely animal ... apart from that time, he's been quite predictable.'