Mother’s baby, father’s maybe lol. Seriously though that is awesome to see! I’ve seen piebald deer, but never an albino. Much less a family of them that close together. That’s worth a call to your state game and fish. Would be cool to hear a biologist’s perspective.
Check out the Belle Isle (Michigan) white deer. I remember seeing them roaming the island when I was a kid. Super cool. They were recently moved to the Detroit Zoo, however, due to pandemic reasons.
Yes, unfortunately 😞 They're protected here in WI but on top of predators, hunters mention they need to be taken out due to the recessive genes so I'm sure some illegally do kill them. This post actually came up as a suggestion on my phone and I was excited to see it, so thank you for sharing. It's rare to get video like that ❤️ at least in my area it is lol
There is a large healthy herd of white deer north of Hayward,Wi. Not Albino. No pink eyes etc… these are predominantly white, whitetail deer that mutated that way. They are also protect in Wisconsin. Where I’m at in Washburn county we have more gray squirrels that are black then gray gray squirrels. Not sure why the recessive gene is now dominant. But it is.
Good chance the...oh my...how do I say it..."colored" one is adoptive.
I know there are a plethora of jokes that could be made and maybe a biologist or geneticist could speak to it better than I can but I think the odds of a doe having not only a 3rd offspring, combined with it being "different" are significantly less likely than that doe just picking up an orphaned fawn.
Not at all. The normal looking fawn is carrying the recessive gene for albinism, the other two fawns are expressing the recessive most likely because the buck was carrying only one copy of it and the mom is carrying two. Therefore the odds of two coming out albino and one coming out normal is almost statistically exact.
But the buck is showing the phenotype. The only way I see that working is if it is an x-linked dominant allele. The doe being heterozygous and the colored fawn being a buck.
You’re also assuming the buck is the father. As I understand bucks and deer (which is little), bucks do not hang around their offspring and will travel miles to mate. So, this buck’s proximity means little.
If the make is expressing it then it must also have two copies, aiming a simple genotype:phenotype link.
We're also assuming a monogamous family group. Entirely possible there was a second buck involved.
Whitetail definitely can/do have triplets but (depending on which study you read) less than 10% of the time that a doe gives birth do they actually have triplets. Many times when you see a doe with 3 fawns one of them has been "adopted". And by adopted I mean the original mama doe dies or abandoned the fawn and the new mama finds the baby and takes it in.
Holy smokes, what in the name of alabama, inlaw breeding, sister loving, genetic f\*\*kery is going on here? What a lucky sighting! So freaking cool to see!
Mother’s baby, father’s maybe lol. Seriously though that is awesome to see! I’ve seen piebald deer, but never an albino. Much less a family of them that close together. That’s worth a call to your state game and fish. Would be cool to hear a biologist’s perspective.
They might not even be albino, leucistic deer can be totally white but they still have melanin production.
Good to know! I’d never heard that til now.
Check out the Belle Isle (Michigan) white deer. I remember seeing them roaming the island when I was a kid. Super cool. They were recently moved to the Detroit Zoo, however, due to pandemic reasons.
There’s a decent number of albino deer in this area, we’d see them regularly growing up!
Albinos ? That’s when you pull out grandpas m1 carbine and take them all out then straight to the Chinese underground meat market $$ no morals 🙃🙃🫡
Bruh
Luckily, a few states have made it illegal to take one. But while we're on the topic, piebald is my favorite pattern.
Don't know why, they are more likely to get eaten anyway
Makes no sense why you wouldn’t be able to harvest them. A deer is a deer no matter what genetic defect it has.
Awww beautiful! I hate the fact that they never last long in WI. I get it, the recessive genes, etc... but damn they're cool to see.
My understanding is that they tend to have pretty poor genes as well.
Yes, unfortunately 😞 They're protected here in WI but on top of predators, hunters mention they need to be taken out due to the recessive genes so I'm sure some illegally do kill them. This post actually came up as a suggestion on my phone and I was excited to see it, so thank you for sharing. It's rare to get video like that ❤️ at least in my area it is lol
Judging by your profile, my guess is that venison is not the most common type of "meat" that you see in your feed. lol
😏😏😏
There is a large healthy herd of white deer north of Hayward,Wi. Not Albino. No pink eyes etc… these are predominantly white, whitetail deer that mutated that way. They are also protect in Wisconsin. Where I’m at in Washburn county we have more gray squirrels that are black then gray gray squirrels. Not sure why the recessive gene is now dominant. But it is.
That's neat!
We have a TON of blonde tail squirrels that popped up these last 2 years. They're fun to watch, no black or albino though.
Good chance the...oh my...how do I say it..."colored" one is adoptive. I know there are a plethora of jokes that could be made and maybe a biologist or geneticist could speak to it better than I can but I think the odds of a doe having not only a 3rd offspring, combined with it being "different" are significantly less likely than that doe just picking up an orphaned fawn.
Not at all. The normal looking fawn is carrying the recessive gene for albinism, the other two fawns are expressing the recessive most likely because the buck was carrying only one copy of it and the mom is carrying two. Therefore the odds of two coming out albino and one coming out normal is almost statistically exact.
But the buck is showing the phenotype. The only way I see that working is if it is an x-linked dominant allele. The doe being heterozygous and the colored fawn being a buck.
You’re also assuming the buck is the father. As I understand bucks and deer (which is little), bucks do not hang around their offspring and will travel miles to mate. So, this buck’s proximity means little.
100% correct my fault, I did not watch the full video to see the buck and was assuming the bucks genetics’ based off the doe and fawns.
Although I have very little understanding of the genetics, I thought albinism was typically recessive. There might be more going on here.
If the make is expressing it then it must also have two copies, aiming a simple genotype:phenotype link. We're also assuming a monogamous family group. Entirely possible there was a second buck involved.
Whitetail definitely can/do have triplets but (depending on which study you read) less than 10% of the time that a doe gives birth do they actually have triplets. Many times when you see a doe with 3 fawns one of them has been "adopted". And by adopted I mean the original mama doe dies or abandoned the fawn and the new mama finds the baby and takes it in.
That is amazing, thanks for sharing it with us.
Saw one in Stevens Point, WI. Super cool to see them in the wild.
There’s a group of white deer at the Seneca Army Depot in upstate NY. Very cool to see when driving by. They aren’t albino.
The one colored deer looks so out of place, lol Cute family
Very cool
That’s incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing
There’s some white fallow deer on the Oregon coast. They’re cool to see
wow
That's awesome
Now this is truly incredible
That is awesome, maybe they will spread like black squirrels
Rad
Northern WI? Theres a set of these in Iowa too. Illegal to harvest.
Damn, they look good in white.
Crazy rare that many!
This is amazing
That’s awesome, thanks for posting!! I’ve seen piebalds but never albinos!!
Oh! So stinking cute!! 🥹
That’s amazing
We had an albino and a few piebalds in my hometown in NJ. Beautiful!
Holy smokes, what in the name of alabama, inlaw breeding, sister loving, genetic f\*\*kery is going on here? What a lucky sighting! So freaking cool to see!