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The fibromas are most often caused by host-specific papillomaviruses.They may also be due to host-specific poxviruses. [1] [4]The transmission of cutaneous fibromas in the white-tailed deer is caused by a virus that is thought to be transmitted through a variety of insect bites or by a deer coming in contact with any contaminated object that scratches or penetrates the skin of the deer or ...
Albinism is a recessive gene trait in animals that causes a lack of pigment in hair, tissue, skin, and more. Having white fur or skin is one thing, but true albinism affects all tissue.
The barasingha is a large deer with a shoulder height of 44 to 46 in (110 to 120 cm) and a head-to-body length of nearly 6 ft (180 cm). Its hair is rather woolly and yellowish brown above but paler below, with white spots along the spine. The throat, belly, inside of the thighs and beneath the tail is white.
At Father Hennepin State Park in Minnesota, a photographer caught a rare glimpse of a white deer wandering about the forest. "We occasionally drive through the park after work in hopes of seeing a ...
The Barbary stag is the only member of the deer family that is native to Africa. It thrives in dense, humid forested areas of Algeria , Tunisia and Morocco . [ 3 ] It had initially been hunted to extinction in the latter, but specimens from the Tunisian population were reintroduced in the 1990s. [ 3 ]
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White-tailed deer from the tropics and the Florida Keys are markedly smaller-bodied than temperate populations, averaging 35 to 50 kg (77 to 110 lb), with an occasional adult female as small as 25 kg (55 lb). [16] White-tailed deer from the Andes are larger than other tropical deer of this species and have thick, slightly woolly-looking fur ...
A male Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus). Note the large preorbital gland extending from just below the orbit. A male sambar (Rusa unicolor) in Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India. These animals are often referred to as "four-eyed deer", due to their large preorbital glands. [9]