Claude, San Francisco’s albino alligator, is turning 30 – how Cal Academy is celebrating

The Brief

  • The California Academy of Sciences is hosting a month-long celebration to honor Claude the albino alligator, who is turning 30 in September.
  • Claude, born in 1995 in Louisiana, came to the San Francisco museum in 2008.

SAN FRANCISCO An albino alligator named Claude will celebrate his 30th birthday next month and the California Academy of Sciences is planning a month-long celebration to mark the occasion.

Claude is the academy’s first alligator with albinism and has been a resident since 2008.

He hatched at an alligator farm in Louisiana in 1995 and later moved into the academy’s facility designed by Renzo Piano, a famed Italian architect.

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