Black Deer

[Tuc]

Have you hunters ever seen a black deer with a white tail before?

The photo came from Michigan with this note--


"This black deer (Melanistic color phase), it's even more rare than an albino".

Is it real? Post your answers before opening the link.


A little more research and I found this....

http://mikehanback.blogs.com/bigbuck...this_blac.html

i seen that before, long ago, it was on a webpage with a whole bunch of different darker deer.think it was off that Hunting.net place. make a pretty cool mount

its a old pic but yet a interesting one i have never seen a black deer maybe someday.

[Outdoor_Ed]

A few years back I saw a albino white tail buck. It kinda through me off. I thought it might be livestock such as a goat. Then I saw the rack. As I started to take aim thats when it took off into the deep brush. It was pretty cool to see.

Ed S.

[TreeGuy]

I've seen several albino deer in NS over the years, but never even considered the posibility of a black one. Are you sure it isn't half skunk?

Tree

[Ticdoc]

Many years ago I saw both a black and a white WTD. The black whitetail was injured and in a veterinary hospital at Texas A&M University hospital. It had come from central Texas, as did the hunter-killed buck shown above. It recovered and was released to the wild.
The white WTD was in the Rachelwood Wildlife Preserve near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. There were quite a few white deer there. Sorry for the white dot picture, but I had forgotten my telephoto lens on that day.

My first photo postings. Excuse any problems.