White deer in Wisconsin

[ElizabethDempsey]

Beautiful footage of white deer in Wisconsin:

-http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=inwi10s22a3q81f

 

[Ellipse]

Magic, thx Elizabeth :D

However the first picture of the video is surprising when you expect a white deer

 

[Beau]

Wow, that's amazing. I lived many years in Wisconsin and never saw nor heard of this phenomenon. I wonder if it's normal around the entire upper Midwest or just in a specific place in Wisconsin. Just thinking about it, they would be pretty invisible once snowfall begins. It really surprises me that you don't see or hear of any of them getting hit by cars because of their camoflauge.

 

[treesparrow]

I thought of posting this report (from november of last year) of a white deer seen in Scotland but never did - but as there's now a white deer thread here it is -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8357445.stm

 

[treesparrow]

Another white deer, an albino fawn photographed in Italy -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1244789/White-Bambi-The-incredibly-rare-sight-albino-baby-deer-frolicking-wilderness.html

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There seems to have been a spate of white deer sighting over the last couple of years, as well as, those mentioned above there was another white deer seen ( a stag) in Scotland in 2008 and yet another in the south west England in 2007 (which was shot).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7238534.stm

Finally for what it might be worth, here's a bit about the symbolism of white deer -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_stag

 

[treesparrow]

Mysterious white stag captured on camera

http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/Mysterious-white-stag-captured-camera/story-13378961-detail/story.html

 

[bngenoh]

WOW, COOL

 

[bngenoh]

What about this

Its a white elk that was shot by hunters in Sweeden.

Link: http://www.thelocal.se/36276/20110921/

 

[davey72]

Cool, I love mutations for some reason. Except when idots shoot them.

 

[Mr.Anderson]

Its a white elk that was shot by hunters in Sweeden.

I think thats' a Moose, but very interesting nevertheless.

 

[bngenoh]

Know, a white Buffalo:

Info about white buffalo interpretation:

White buffalo are American bison (American buffalo) that are considered to be sacred signs in several Native American religions, and thus have great spiritual importance in those cultures and are visited for prayer and other religious ceremonies. Buffalo are normally brown in color; white buffalo can result from one of several physical conditions:

They may be leucistic, with white fur but blue eyes, instead of the pink seen in albinos.
They may have a rare genetic condition which causes a buffalo to be born white, but to become brown within a year or two as it matures.
They may be albinos, in which case they will remain unpigmented throughout their lives, and may also have hearing and vision problems.
They may be beefalo, a bison-cattle crossbreed, and thus have inherited the white coloration from their cattle ancestry.
White buffalo are extremely rare; The National Bison Association has estimated that they only occur in approximately one out of every 10 million births.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_buffalo

 

[bngenoh]

White penguin:

Source: http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/rare-white-penguin-spotted-antarctica-213152350--abc-news.html