Have you ever seen such a thing

the melanistic white-tail deer is real. The black lion is a photoshop job.
 
Did anyone else notice that the deer was dead? There is some irony in shooting a rare animal to prove it is real.
 
nanoboy said:
Did anyone else notice that the deer was dead? There is some irony in shooting a rare animal to prove it is real.
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black whitetail deer are relatively common in Texas. Lots of hunters shoot them. That particular one was shot in central Texas in 2004.
 
I got forwarded this "albino zebra" recently. Thoughts? The eyes are blue, I have no idea where the pic originated, and I am wondering if it is a fake rather than just an incorrect caption.
 

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Well its not an albino because it has pigment. Leucistic possibly. Or hypomelanistic.

:p

Hix
 
we have a black blackbird who comes into out garden, I know blackbirds are black, but this one has a black beak and feet too.
I have seen white ones and black and white ones, but never an all black one.
dean
 
Hypomelanistic then.

:p

Hix
 
have you ever...

Surely the same mutation asa white tiger -- brown stripes, blue eyes. I think one of the [Eastern?] European zoos is breeding them, and that there is at least one other picture of one on here somewhere.
 
White Tigers are anerythristic - no red/orange melanin (phaeomelanins) - the black stripes are not affected, unlike the zebtras in the photos above.

:p

Hix
 
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