Black deer

Quite rare black🦌 variety of fallow deer seen in the Baryczy valley in Poland.🇵🇱 #blackdeer #fallowdeer #melanisticdeer #rareanimals #deervalley...

Beautiful Black Deer

A very unusual genetic color variation in white-tailed deer — rarer even than albinism — produces all-black offspring in that species which are known as “melanistic” or “melanic” deer.

Melanistic ... Black deer fawn

Nature just never fails to surprise us. There is no comparison with the beauty that comes with natural things. Most of it is seen in the animal kingdom when you come across rare animals. Even though all animals are special and deserve to be loved and appreciated, some are just different from others. There are

Melanistic deer are probably the rarest color phase out there. Here's the odds on seeing this kind of deer in the woods.

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Here's a cool shot of an unusually dark fawn. According to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Facebook site, this photo was taken in the Texas Hill Country. The Hill Country seems to have a higher occurrence of melanistic deer than any other part of the state. Curiously, many black panther reports come out of the Hill Country as well. Interesting.

Wild! Even rarer than albino white-tailed deer are black, or “melanistic,” white-tails. Photographer R. M. Buquoi took these photos of a melanistic fawn near Austin, Texas.