The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/15/sfs-own-albino-alligator-claude-is-turning-30-years-old-celebrations-area-scaling-up/The California Academy of Sciences is chomping at the bit to throw multiple parties for Claude the albino alligator’s 30th birthday, lining up celebrity chefs, cocktail parties, and cakes made of fish guts The famed albino alligator Claude was hatched 30 years ago, and not at his current home in a synthetic moat at the California Academy of Sciences, but in the swamplands of Florida. He was taken in by an alligator rescue, because his albino condition and poor eyesight meant he would surely not last long in the wild. He came to the Academy of Sciences in 2008, originally homed with a non-albino female alligator named Bonnie. But she bit o

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