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A photographer recently snapped this pic of an orange alligator in South Carolina. An expert explains why the gator is such an unusual color.

When people emerge from the cold dark of winter with an unnatural orange color, a bad spray tan is usually to blame. But in the case of orange alligators, the reason’s a little different.