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Behind Blue Eyes
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Behind Blue Eyes

7 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Only thirteen leucistic alligators are known to exist, and four of them live at Gatorland in Orlando, Florida. Leucism gives these gators pale, almost white skin with blue eyes, distinct from albinism, and the condition is rare enough that reptile keepers treat each animal as effectively irreplaceable. The film follows the four gators from their origins in the swamps outside New Orleans to their current enclosure at Gatorland, with keepers and staff describing the logistics of moving and housing animals that stand out so sharply against their surroundings that they cannot survive in the wild. Interviews cover how the park identifies, breeds, and protects leucistic alligators, and what their vulnerability to sun and predators means for their care day to day. Archival and present-day footage traces the animals' history alongside Gatorland's own, positioning the park as the site of what it calls the largest collection of leucistic alligators anywhere. The film stays close to the enclosures and the people who run them rather than ranging into broader alligator biology.