I saw an all-black deer while hunting in upstate New York last season. One of my buddies saw it too, so I'm not crazy. How rare are they?
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I saw an all-black deer while hunting in upstate New York last season. One of my buddies saw it too, so I'm not crazy. How rare
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They exist, and are rarer than albinos. In deer, at least.
T is right. They are melanistic. Best examples of this are "black panthers". They're just all black leopards or jaguars. The gene that gives them some black coloration gets overactive and makes them all black.
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I saw 2 black deer, doe and fawn, a couples weeks ago. I'm not sure if they were all black, but they were black. When I first saw them running past me at about 30 yards, I thought that they were dogs or wild pigs. But as they ran past, I saw that they were deer with white tails. I was really confused at first because they are either grayish in color or sometimes still redish in the early season. I thought that they might have been dark red, but the more I think about it, the more I am sure that they are black.
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