Orange is the new
green in crocodile style this season.
Snappy, an
8-foot-2-inch crocodile, is sporting haute-couture orange skin and he's looking
fabulous and feeling fine!
But it's not really a
fashion statement. It's a result of attacking the water filter of his enclosure
at Roaming Reptiles animal park in Australia.
"Snappy's pretty
territorial and he attacked the filter one day, and a few weeks after that, I
noticed he was orange," said owner Tracey Sandstrom in an interview with
the Herald Sun.
"It doesn't seem
to have affected him at all. He's still got a healthy appetite, is normally
aggro and doing everything he always does," said Sandstrom.
A crocodile expert
interviewed by the Herald Sun said he believes the croc is in perfect health
despite his outrageous new look.
"Our guess is
that it is something in the water such as iron or tannins from leaves or some
red algae, that oxidises when it dries," Webb said.
Snappy is expected to
go back to his normal color eventually.
It seems absolutely
fabulous new colors are all the rage in the animal kingdom. Discovery News
recently reported on glow-in-the-dark cats.
IMAGE: Snappy,
showing off his new look (Alex Coppel/Herald Sun).
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