Saw an unusual deer recently...wonder if anyone else has seen one?

[JohnL57]

I was hiking in Utah recently and came upon this spotted deer-took pics with my phone but quality isn't great.


It's the only time I've ever seen one like that, how about you folks?
John

 

[Dirte]

I'm pretty sure that is a Holstein cow!

 

[Guest]

"JohnL57"I was hiking in Utah recently and came upon this spotted deer-took pics with my phone but quality isn't great.

It's the only time I've ever seen one like that, how about you folks?
John

I've seen albinos but never a spotted one. Looks like a good adaptation to that habitat.

 

[Bradyman1]

Crazy!

 

[iride]

I got some hunting land I can use down by Junction Texas, Lots of game down there that have escaped ranches,
I got to stop and try and figure out what the hell it is,
One is black and brown and has antlers like a moose , and about the size of a horse.
Never seen them at the feeders, (camera) just on the side of the road.
Deer in picture kind of look like a cross between a axis and a mule deer?
Mike 

 

[X27]

A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of pigmented spots on an unpigmented (white) background of hair, feathers or scales.

That is what you have there, its like a half albino mix.

 

[ztirffritz]

If that deer was about 20ft to the right in your second photo it'd disappear. Evolution is amazing ain't it?

 

[jspade]

In white tailed deer it is a pretty common occurance, and although i have never seen a mule deer in person I have never seen even an photo of a pie bald mule deer. Very nice thanks for sharing.

 

[Nueces]

Found a few articles with a web search. Not terribly uncommon evidently.

 

[Topcat]

Where's the tail? I don't see a tail

 

[JohnL57]

Taking a hint from Nueces I did a google search and found a pic of the very same doe! I saw it at Arches National park, it was very tame. Apparently somebody else has seen and photographed the same doe, small world.

 

[Jeffhalfrack]

Cool. Check out the Seneca white deer heard in my neck of the woods JeffW

 

[Blackmouth]

irideI got some hunting land I can use down by Junction Texas, Lots of game down there that have escaped ranches,
I got to stop and try and figure out what the hell it is,
One is black and brown and has antlers like a moose , and about the size of a horse.
Never seen them at the feeders, (camera) just on the side of the road.
Deer in picture kind of look like a cross between a axis and a mule deer?
Mike 

Google fallow deer, they can be white, spotted brown similar to an axis and chocolate brown. I wouldn't say as big as a horse but they do have palmated antlers similar to moose. Axis, blackbuck, sika, and fallow deer are the most common free-ranging exotics found in the Hill Country of Texas.

That piebald deer is a cool find, they have several melanistic (dark colored) deer in Central Texas.

(Apparently I don't know how the quote option works, I apologize how this post looks)

 

[bowwild]

Yep, piebald. More common than albino. The rarest color mutation is a "black" or melanistic whitetail deer. 

 

[Moorair]

Hello JohnL57. Beautiful pictures of her, thanks for sharing. I used to shoot Whidbey Island where the little black tail deer roamed. There were quite a few with varying degrees of white. I was never tempted to shoot one, poor things stood out like one thing. 

 

[Ziabeam]

"ztirffritz".... Evolution is amazing ain't it?

God had His thinking cap on when he contemplated where them thar deer might roam.

 

[colbhasa]

I visited Arches in 2015 and 2016. Didn't take my rifle though. ;-) Beautiful country. Saw this doe at Devil's Garden just at sunrise.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154942695372954&set=a.10150318306137954.356839.594647953&type=3&theater

 

[nattydread]

Piebald deer. Bad genetics.

 

[JohnL57]

"colbhasa"I visited Arches in 2015 and 2016. Didn't take my rifle though. ;-) Beautiful country. Saw this doe at Devil's Garden just at sunrise.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154942695372954&set=a.10150318306137954.356839.594647953&type=3&theater

I would like to go on record as passing right by Cabela's AND Bass Pro Shops superstores without going in. I did have my wife with me which would have made concealing any long brown boxes rather difficult. It could have been worse, I might have had to drive past Airguns of Arizona!
John

 

[grizzlyadams]

you will have that when animals start inbreeding. there is a military base out here in the finger lakes (nys) where the deer are fenced in (or were) ****** albinos and piebalds