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Melanistic deer (black whitetail deer) - white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
| Subject: | Melanistic deer (black whitetail deer) - white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
| | Poster: | funny (from@funny.animal.photos)
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Date: 2007:09:14 23:44:05
Upload Date: 2007:09:14 23:51:29
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A melanistic whitetail fawn. Excessive levels of the melanism pigment are very rarely observed in white-tailed deer: the genetic basis of this phenomenon is unknown. Photo by C. Graham; courtesy of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia. |
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