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Snowflake Adelaide's
50th B-Day
Albino American alligator
Short-beaked echidna
Guests visiting The Swamp this past summer and
fall had the unique opportunity to see Snowflake, On March 23, Brookfield Zoo celebrated the
a 16-year-old albino American alligator on loan from milestone birthday of its oldest animal—a short-
Florida’s St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological beaked echidna. At Australia, 50-year-old Adelaide
Park. Measuring 7-feet long, Snowflake resided at was rewarded with a birthday cake topped with
The Swamp habitat through October. Albino alligators her favorite treat: wax worms. Short-beaked
are extremely rare; biologists estimate that only about echidnas are native to Australia and central and
100 exist in the world. south New Guinea. They are one of only two
mammals to lays eggs.
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