Black Deer (Pic)

kilowatt · Mar 15, 2004

Here is a picture I just received and looks like it was taken in Michigan from test of e-mail.

elk_horn · Mar 15, 2004

that is not a deer ...look at the nose and face...someone is pulling a fast one

Bambistew · Mar 15, 2004

Thats pretty cool. Its a melenistic deer, or in other words the deer only produces black melinin in its skin making its skin and hair white. Very rare.

sampson · Mar 15, 2004

That's a cool looking buck. Thanks for posting the picture.

Ant · Mar 15, 2004

Now that would be a trophy. I have never seen one of those.

RLH · Mar 15, 2004

elk-horn, you lookin' at the deer or the woman? sure looks like a deer to me.

IronBuck · Mar 15, 2004

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We had a black deer killed here in PA this past season.I have never even heard of these before this year.

http://www.paoutdoornews.com/PAOUTDOORNEWS/viewsearchresults.asp?infoid=113080972&moduleid=17103028

Bambistew · Mar 15, 2004

I meant black... not white!

oldoregon · Mar 15, 2004

there is a melanistic whitetail buck that lives in troy oregon, really nice 5 point.

Later Yall!!!!

manny15 · Mar 15, 2004

If Its a melenistic deer then what's with the white tail.....?.....I pasted the pic on my desktop and lightened it up and the buck has alot of brown tone in 'em.

NVMDF · Mar 15, 2004

I was hunting in late October with a friend North of Elko
a few years ago and saw a small 2 Point that was black like
that, it was still in velvet and the velvet was black also.
I gave him hell for not shooting it.

NVMDF

ironhead · Mar 15, 2004

I think something is fishy here. The under part of that tail should be black also. All the rest of his hair is black why not underneath the tail. Maybe this gene just affects the body hair and not the tail.

D13er · Mar 15, 2004

How ironic Ironbuck.

JB

RACKMASTER · Mar 15, 2004

Bet it tasted like chicken!
Thats odd! I seen albino blacktail in A ZONE(CALIFORNA).
However never solid black!

MartinHunter · Mar 15, 2004

Cool, my uncle went after an all black mt lion this year.
Michael

JimmyAZ · Mar 16, 2004

On your your post, I glassed up 2 lions in the grand canyon, 1 was all black as well, one of the coolest things I've ever seen!!

RLH · Mar 16, 2004

there is a black phase of mt lion. not as common as a black jaguar, but they are there. i've never seen one, but would sure get a kick out of it. i'd be afraid to shoot one tho, be sceered it'd be a black jag. guess if one was up a tree and you could study it a bit, you could tell the difference pretty quick. don't know if i've ever seen a picture of a black lion either. but i've read that the potential is there.