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Dennis Anderson: On grandpa’s Minnesota farm, a shot and a day of searching yields a rare piebald buck
This was a buck, and a good one ... “But they’re not as rare as melanistic deer, which also due to a genetic mutation are colored very dark.’’ On the Thursday morning following the ...
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‘Rarest of rare’ animal spotted in Texas desert
What the Texas Parks and Wildlife—Trans-Pecos Wildlife District spotted from a helicopter and captured in video was a melanistic (black hair) mule deer fawn, “a one-in-a-million anomaly.” ...
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Did you know? Pennsylvania's state animal is the white-tailed deer
In Pennsylvania, the average adult buck weighs about 140 ... They are shed in April and May. Melanistic (dark-colored) and albino (abnormally white) deer occur, but they are exceptionally rare.