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Stumbled across this on the web.

Photo of a White Caiman in the Amazon.

What are the odds, eh? And an adult at that.

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White Caiman

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I had a female that looked just like that animal hypo like.That is not uncommon.It is not white at all but light yellow green or tan.Nice but not rare.
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Archie Bottoms

looks like a albino
judging buy the yellow stripes and purple very cool
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If you look close it has black spots on the belly and legs I def dont think its albino. Caiman can be very light.

Thats just funny albino yea right
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Archie Bottoms

i would put money on that being a albino that is stained or covered in muck. I have gotten in alot of w/c albino turtles that look like that until they get a nice cleaning. but hey what do i know about albinos, i only have or had over 50 different species of albino animals from salamanders to alligators.

also since there has been over 30 albino caiman found or hatched just this year a albino caiman was hatched on a farm in columbia there is a video of it on you tube.
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I had a caimen that was that caimens twin ..It seemed hypo.It may be albino but That is doubtful .I had that caimen 28 years.
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Archie Bottoms

Well, I know a LOT about albino's too and that ain't an albino Caiman. I shipped one albino Caiman to Utai at Samut Prakan back in the early 80's [actually Gary Bagnell did] but I set the whole thing up. I've seen many Caiman light brown like that one. It's nothing more than a light colored Caiman.....Uthen has hundreds of snow white porosus with black spots but their not albino's either. I believe I have pics of those on my website...
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Tom Crutchfield
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Look on page 2 of back in the day on my website and there is a pic there of a WHITE porosus with black spots but it's not an albino...thanks
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Tom Crutchfield
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Here is a pic of those, I would have a got one of these a couple years back if we lived in a free country

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Great Lakes Zoological

As you know Uthen offered to give me some False Gavials that his father and my old friend Utai wanted to present as a gift to me. I reluctantly refused because it would be unlikely I could get the import permit...
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Tom Crutchfield
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Tom, Actually ... you had one of these at your old farm didnt you?
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Great Lakes Zoological

The one I had was bought at TG&Y STORE FORE 1 DOLLAR AND 50 CENTS for my 8th birthday.I picked it out of a batch of dark ones.Over the years I have scene a few like it.I was once told mine was of a dwarf population from mexico.DNA was run and every thing.She laid eggs at 3 foot.I sure miss her as well as the ability to find specticled caimens period.I have a smooth front about 3 years old I would love to trade for a spec.
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Archie Bottoms

Yes, I had a 9-10' female called Whitey that belonged to the Gladys Porter Zoo. I bred her several times with Morton and produced over a 100 babies but none were white. It must be a simple reccessive trait like albinism...I returned her back to the Zoo and I believe she's still alive there...
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Tom Crutchfield
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Looks Hypo to me.
But still a great looking animal.
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