The San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission this week approved the renaming of a street in Golden Gate Park after Claude, an albino alligator who became a beloved figure in the city before dying last month.

Claude lived at the California Academy of Sciences from 2008 until his passing in December at the age of 30 due to liver cancer. He was one of an estimated 100 to 200 albino alligators in the world and became the unofficial ambassador of the science museum.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.