Per the post, Snowball was one of fewer than 100 known white alligators in the world ... Although the average American alligator can live well into their 70s, the lifespan of albino alligators ...

The White Alligator is a product of leucism The ... This is why leucistic alligators are the rarest genetic variant among American alligators, as stated by Gatorland Orlando's authorities.

"We bundle up, but this is what the American alligator does," a park employee said of the creatures' winter habit Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...