The post about the melanistic groundhog promoted me to share this photo.
I had no idea what piebaldism was or how rare it was to see a deer with it. I'm not sure if the stats online are correct, but they suggest about 2 percent of whitetail deer have it.
Again, not sure if this is accurate, but I read somewhere that indigenous groups believed piebald deer were signs that a big change was coming. I just had my first kid before seeing this, so that definitely tracked.
Anyway, really cool sighting. My wife spotted the same deer later that summer. We haven't seen any since.
5 Comments
CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y
What a beautiful animal.
tmcgh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
That's so cool! Hope you get to see it again!
mcpheeandme@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Thank you! Feel super lucky, especially because I'm in a town that's overdeveloped.
Andy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 3y
That's sick. Not quite the same but reminds me of these two albino squirrels that lived in my childhood neighborhood. They stuck around for a surprisingly long time.
mcpheeandme@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Love that. It must've been extra cool because you were young.