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. …