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Orange gator must be a dye job, Fla. officials say
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POSTED: Monday, January 10, 2011 - 12:42pm
UPDATED: Monday, January 10, 2011 - 3:22pm
VENICE, Fla. (AP) -- An orange alligator photographed in South Florida is raising questions about its bizarre pigment. Sylvia Mythen snapped the photo of the gator sunning beside a neighborhood canal in Venice.
The picture ran on TV after she shot it Wednesday and caused a buzz.
Experts with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have scrutinized the photo and say the color is not genetic. They believe the gator was somehow covered in paint or an orange substance.
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Information from: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, http://www.herald-trib.com
Jessica Wilson/ KETKnbc.com
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It looks as if the alligator live in a pond with a hig iron content. This picture looks like he is either covered in iron rich mud or has been stained by the substance. Iron rich clay will most definately stian skin. My cousins and I played in the East Texas red clay mud puddles after rainstorms when we were kids and we would have to scrub like crazy to get the orange stains off of our skin.
It looks as if the alligator live in a pond with a high iron content. This picture looks like he is either covered in iron rich mud or has been stained be the substance. Iron rich clay will most definately stian skin. My cousins and I played in the East Texas red clay mud puddles after rainstorms when we were kids and we would have to scrub like crazy to get the orange stains off of our skin.
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