That’s the spot! Albino alligator grins from ear to ear as zoo keeper gives her a scrub
- An albino alligator cheekily grins as she receives a scrub at a zoo in California
- Coconut the albino alligator is one of just 200 in the world, making her very rare
- The scrub was carried out by zoo keeper Juliette Brewer in Fountain Valley
Hilarious footage shows a rare albino alligator smiling a toothy grin while her keeper gives her a scrub at a California zoo.
The scene was captured on video at The Reptile Zoo in Fountain Valley as keeper Juliette Brewer, who is the zoo owner’s daughter, was grooming the animal.
The alligator, called Coconut, is one of around just 200 albinos in the world.
This is the moment a rare albino alligator smiles a toothy grin while zoo keeper Juliette Brewer gives her a scrub at The Reptile Zoo in Fountain Valley, California
Juliette Brewer, who is the zoo owner’s daughter,said: ‘She’s an albino so you can see she has all kinds of algae around her so what I do is give her a little bit of a bath and just scrub her’. The alligator, called Coconut, is one of around just 200 albinos in the world
Ms Brewer said: ‘As you can see she’s an albino so you can see she has all kinds of algae around her so what I do is give her a little bit of a bath and just scrub her.
‘And look at her, she just loves it!’
Ms Brewer smiles as well during her bathing of the alligator, and talks her Instagram followers through the whole process
The footage, posted by The Reptile Zoo on Instagram, has been liked more than 102,000 times.
Instagram follower Lance Turner said: ‘For an animal that lacks expression she sure does look happy’.
Meanwhile, fellow user Ashley Aguirre added: ‘Her smile… so cute!’
Albino alligators are born without the pigment melanin, making them appear white.
They also have lightly pink-tinged eyes, rather than the usual black and green.
Because they have no camouflage protection in the wild they are usually eaten by predators at an early age, making albino alligators very rare.
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