Amazing Albino Stag
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robin wood
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I suspect a bit of photoshop touching up. Albino stags and bucks are not uncommon in some populations particularly deer parks where they are sometimes favoured. Knowle Park in Sevenoaks used to have about 20% whites but they would never appear pure white against snow.
Albino fallow are very rare. Pure whites are not so. From my understanding albino is a total lack of pigment which can bring health problems. Whites have white pigment.
It is probably a park fallow bred for white colouring. Lovely specimen with excellent antlers.
For a pretty concise book on fallow see:
Fallow Deer
Donald and Norma Chapman
It is probably a park fallow bred for white colouring. Lovely specimen with excellent antlers.
For a pretty concise book on fallow see:
Fallow Deer
Donald and Norma Chapman
Nee chance. It's an albino. Check the eyes. Red eyes = no pigment to hide the blood circulating behind the iris..
Some years ago here in Kansas, an albino deer was seen and videotaped. The Kansas Fish & Game Department, requested that no one shoot it in the upcoming deer season, but it disappeared and was never seen again after deer season. It appeared, as best as I could tell, from watching the video, to be a true albino.
Sadly that's tantamount to signing it's execution warrant because there'd always be some hunter who would just have to shoot it
dunno if its still true but the policy on the New forests was to cull out the White ones as it marked the herd out to poachers to easily
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Duncan
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Duncan
Agreed, it's not an albino, my mistake. I also suspect minor Photoshop, but nothing major. Either way it's still a great image. I was just hoping that such a magnificent animal was really out there in the forest somewhere.
I saw a wild red deer albino stag near Braemar some years ago. Scraggy looking beast but impressive nevertheless. There are quite a few legends about them in Scottish folklore and they are said to possess magical powers.
Maybe there's a link to the origins of the Unicorn legend? Although I thought that was more about Narwhale tusks.
Apparently theres a new white stag down in my neck of the woods but i havent seen it 
( My wife saw the old one before it was killed tho
oh and my neck of the woods is the forest of deanp
( My wife saw the old one before it was killed thooh and my neck of the woods is the forest of dean
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If that was taken anywhere North of Watford Gap then its probably a deep shade of flood-water brown right now!
Strangely enough, I was up on the South Downs today in a wood on the edges of a slope while going off the beaten path a bit below the ridge and saw a herd of deer bolt about 50 yards away, which is always nice to see. At the end of the herd & a bit lower down was an all white deer that ran for a bit & then stopped looking at me about 80 yards away, before legging it. It was really a sort of dirty cream colour & I think it was a female Roe (it had no big antlers anayway), but my deer identification is not that great. Still it was a nice surprise and I seem to be seeing more than my fair share of albino animals this year, as there is a pair of white squirrels that live in a wood on the otherside of the bypass from me (see white squirrel thread). As it had been chucking it down with rain all day I left the camaera at home, so no photo I am afraid. Aint nature great?!!
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BOD
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Aren't we just talking small populations and in-breeding?
This points to fragmentation of populations and should be a cause of concern.
Environmentalists get distressed when a albino civet or monkey is spotted
This points to fragmentation of populations and should be a cause of concern.
Environmentalists get distressed when a albino civet or monkey is spotted
Dont know about the biology side of it, but I cant imagine there are not too many albino animals in a poplutaion as they are more prone to disease, predation etc.. from what I understand.
The deer I saw I am beinging to think may have been a stag, as it behaved in similar ways to single stags I have seen in the past when with a group of females. I only saw it for a few seconds, so it's hard to remember what sex it was. Sill, it's nice to think I saw one of England's famous white stags.
The deer I saw I am beinging to think may have been a stag, as it behaved in similar ways to single stags I have seen in the past when with a group of females. I only saw it for a few seconds, so it's hard to remember what sex it was. Sill, it's nice to think I saw one of England's famous white stags.
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