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Experts estimate that less than 2% of the whitetail deer population suffers from Piebald. Either way, seeing an Albino or Piebald deer will give you a campfire story for years to come. Watch the Video
A white deer from species such as fallow deer, roe deer, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, or rusa, is instead referred to as a “white buck” or “white doe”. The all-white coloration is the result of leucism , a condition that causes hair and skin to lose its natural pigmentation.
A member of this family is called a deer or a cervid. They are widespread throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes . Cervids range in size from the 60 cm (24 in) long and 32 cm (13 in) tall pudú to the 3.4 m (11.2 ft) long and 3.4 m (11.2 ft) tall moose .
A rare piebald deer has been spotted in the yard of a south Salem family. These deer have a genetic trait that causes the unique color along with frequent skeletal abnormalities and dwarfism.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... White stag, a red deer with leucism; An albino deer of any species; Places. White Deer, Texas, United States;
It’s an uncommon genetic anomaly known as piebald, different from an albino, which is purely white. “In our area, people were hunting this deer specifically,” Orwig said.
Seneca white deer inside the depot. The Seneca white deer are a rare herd of deer living within the confines of the former Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York.When the 10,600-acre (43 km 2) depot was created in 1941, a 24-mile (39 km) fence was erected around its perimeter, isolating a small herd of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), some of which had white coats.
Melanistic animals were found to carry at least one copy of a mutant MC1R sequence allele, bearing a 15-base pair inframe deletion. Ten unrelated melanistic jaguars were either homozygous or heterozygous for this allele. A 24-base pair deletion causes the incompletely dominant allele for melanism in the jaguarundi.