A crocodile turned orange after attacking a filter in its enclosure.
A filter’s final revenge. Snappy, an 8-foot-2-inch crocodile lives in the enclosure at Roaming Reptiles Animal Park in Australia. According to his owner, Tracey Sandstorm, Snappy is pretty territorial. So when he noticed that filter, silently mocking him from a distance, Snappy just snapped and tore it to shreds. A few weeks after that, Tracey noticed that he had turned orange.
Fortunately, he’s still had a healthy appetite and continued to do his usual thing. A crocodile expert interviewed by the Herald Sun guesses that something in the water such as iron or tannins from leaves or red algae gave Snappy his new orange scales when it dried. Snappy eventually went back to his old color; orange just wasn’t for him.