The San Francisco Bay Area has lost one of its most unique and cherished icons. Claude, the famed albino alligator of the California Academy of Sciences, has swum off to that great swamp in the sky.
The ivory-skinned icon passed away on Dec. 2. Bart Shepherd, director of the museum’s Steinhart Aquarium, told the Los Angeles Times that the cause was end-stage liver cancer.
Claude was only 30 years old…