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Besides the standard, familiar color, there are four major coloration categories of deer: albino, leucistic, piebald and melanistic. Let’s look at how to identify each, and how they are different, so you’ll be able to identify these rare forms should you be lucky enough to see one.
Thanks to their efforts, here are 10 interesting facts about color variation in white-tailed deer: 1. Color variations are the most frequently observed anomaly in white-tailed deer....
Whitetail deer have dichromatic vision, meaning that they see blue and yellow colors the best. This also means that they are very poor at distinguishing orange and red colors. Velvet Cover – White-tailed deer bucks shed their antlers every year, and grow a new pair.
Let’s be clear, here. A leucistic or piebald white-tailed deer is a genetic anomaly. It would always be susceptible to predators, whether or not it was pursued by humans. The Seneca Army Depot is known for the white deer but there are actually many other reasons to protect it.
The white-tailed deer's coat is a reddish-brown in the spring and summer, and turns to a grey-brown throughout the fall and winter. The white-tailed deer can be recognized by the characteristic white underside to its tail. It raises its tail when it is alarmed to warn the predator that it has been detected. [11] Female with tail in alarm posture
Some piebald deer can be almost pure white except small patches of regular brown hair, while others carry just patches of white hair with otherwise normal markings. Otherwise, an albino or piebald white-tailed deer will have the normal characteristics of other white-tailed deer.
Combinations of genes for coat color in deer include brown/brown, brown/white, and white/white. Because brown is dominant, the only gene combination that can produce a white fawn is white/white. White is already an extremely rare gene, so this further decreases the odds of a fawn being born white.
Color : These deer stay covered with thick coat of greyish brown coat throughout the winter months. During spring and summer they are reddish brown in color. Picture 1 – White-tailed Deer. White-tailed deer have some very prominent behavioral traits. Find all about their behavior below.
White-tailed deer have dichromatic vision which means they see colors in the spectrum of two of the primary colors (blue and yellow) but cannot easily differentiate different shades of colors like red or orange.
In summer, white-tailed deer are reddish-brown to tan above; in winter, the colors are grayish to grayish brown. The belly, chin, throat, and underside of the tail remain white all year. Fawns are reddish brown and spotted with white; they lose their spots and acquire uniform coloration at 3–5 months of age when transitioning to their first ...