White Deer

[Cliffy]

Just received this from a friend. Very interesting what mother nature comes up with sometimes.

news + public affairs player: video

 

[In Between Man]

Holy Sh!t! Thanks for posting this Cliffy! I've seen an albino deer once, but nothing like this! What a neat video!

Thanks again!

 

[Kathie Bondar]

Oh Deer! I hope nobody will shoot them for their unique coat.
Thanks for sharing

 

[#juan]

Those deer are obviously Albinos. Pink eyes, very pink ears. piink nose and mouth. Ordinarily,
deer have brown eyes, brown or black muzzle, and the ears would be dark inside. Albinos have no
pigment in their eyes or in their skin or muzzles. Albinos don't usually live as long as normal
animals for a number of reasons. They also suffer because they don't have their usual camoflage.

 

[darkbeaver]

Do they taste good? I like deer, never et a white one before, easy to hunt I imagine.

 

[Cliffy]

Do they taste good? I like deer, never et a white one before, easy to hunt I imagine.

Stand out like sore thumbs, they do.

 

[darkbeaver]

Is it any wonder they're rare?

 

[MissAnnika]

I'm originally from upstate New York (Finger Lakes Region) and there's a pretty hefty population of albino deer in that area. There has even been a fence built there to protect and conserve them.

Of all the years I've been living beside them, I never thought to get a picture

 

[CDNBear]

I bet they taste as good as the regular variety, and that pelt would look awesome as a throw on the back of the couch.

 

[petros]

want to hear something funny?


We spent oodles of money to save the whooping crane which turns out to be a flock of albino sandhills.

 

[gerryh]

I bet they taste as good as the regular variety, and that pelt would look awesome as a throw on the back of the couch.

yup, shoot em, skin em, eat em, yummmmmm.

 

[55Mercury]

I saw one several years ago now, while I was morel picking on the east side of the base, south of the golf course. It was running, or bounding rather, along with a group of other deer, maybe 8 or 9 in all. But my view was obstructed by the hundred yards or so of maple wood which stood between us, such that upon first glance it appeared to be a large white chicken at full stretch, after something fast and tasty! My first thought was what's that big white chicken running after over there? (heh heh, and I hadn't even eaten any mushrooms, Alice!) Then I noticed all the other deer it was with and realized it was a white deer. I think it had flecks of light brown in its coat so it wasn't likely an albino, just a white deer. The morels were bountiful and extra tasty that year, as I recall.