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Post by Shorthair on Mar 1, 2004 6:01:30 GMT -5
I've seen some pretty dark ones in the swamps around here but nothing like this. You reckon this is for real? It looks kinda suspicious to me.  |
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Post by hoythunter48 on Mar 1, 2004 10:40:35 GMT -5
I have heard of this before, I think when a deer is black its called melanistic, i remember reading an article in a magazine about it, it said in the article that melanistic deer where just like albinoes but at the other end of the spectrum, where albinoes have no pigment, melanistic deer have like all of it and it makes them black, it also said that they were way more rare than albinoes. That is if i remember it correctly
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Post by flhuntress on Mar 1, 2004 11:10:46 GMT -5
that's just amazing...never heard of one or seen one.
thanks for sharing.
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Post by gulfcoasthunter on Mar 1, 2004 20:23:25 GMT -5
Hoythunter is right, I think the article was in North American Whitetail.
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Post by Todd1700 on Mar 1, 2004 22:57:51 GMT -5
I've never seen a completely black one on our land but check out this one that my game camera snapped a shot of last month.  |
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Post by deerslayer11 on Mar 1, 2004 23:05:20 GMT -5
Thats pretty cool.
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Post by hunt4fun1 on Mar 5, 2004 11:37:11 GMT -5
Neat animal.
I've heard of them before but never seen one.
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Post by raktrakr on Mar 13, 2004 22:33:34 GMT -5
there's a young hunter, fairly new to the sport, that took one in PA. the 1st pic i think was taken in TX.
Todd, thats a pretty rare pic you have there
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Post by mudfish2 on Apr 30, 2004 6:59:20 GMT -5
nope..have now though
seen me a purple elephant once maybe twice ;D
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Post by GAPORKCHOP on Jun 18, 2004 9:32:37 GMT -5
I'm not racial...... I shoot black, brown, red, white deer.......  ;D  |
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Post by GoTres on Jun 21, 2004 13:46:35 GMT -5
Cool pic Todd. Nice rub on that tree in the foreground too.
Got a close up picture of an albino this past weekend. I'll post it when I get it developed.
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