COOL! I hope it makes more of them. They are beautiful!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_klGpGrOpsAI/SUuC0S7MdOI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/pyDMlTBL9LU/s320/eyes+of+albino.jpg)
I see what you did there..
Uh, my hummer has blue eyes.
Last week I had two does and four fawns in the backyard. One of the fawns was snow white except for two brown spots about the size of a quarter on its right side. They tell me that that comes from inbreding.
The white hummingbird is a pretty little thing.
I dunno. Albinos happen in every species as far as I know. Deer aren't known to inbreed unless the population is very small, and I don't think that is the case anywhere.
The old Seneca Army Depot, in the Finger Lakes region of NY, had a population of albino whitetail deer on the grounds. They're supposedly not true albinos--it's a 'color phase' of the deer. I think the grounds are still fenced-in, to keep the deer there (and not to interbreed with other local deer). The place did house nuclear weapons (shells for "Atomic Annie," for example). It was closed in 2000, but there is a nonprofit that's running the place for the white deer.
http://www.senecawhitedeer.org/
The old Seneca Army Depot, in the Finger Lakes region of NY, had a population of albino whitetail deer on the grounds. They're supposedly not true albinos--it's a 'color phase' of the deer. I think the grounds are still fenced-in, to keep the deer there (and not to interbreed with other local deer). The place did house nuclear weapons (shells for "Atomic Annie," for example). It was closed in 2000, but there is a nonprofit that's running the place for the white deer.
http://www.senecawhitedeer.org/
Well you can imagine they might have a little trouble with camouflage. Prolly not a genetic trait ya want to perpetuate.
Supposedly, from the site, there's about 200 of them on the grounds.
Can't see the pic only the title but shouldn't this be in the shortbus? :naughty:
Good thing you said it, cuz I was gonna...
Wow! If the gene is migrating that far, perhaps they should make sure they never get out into the population. I dunno though, out in the wild they wouldn't last long and nature has a habit of takin' care of it's own.
But, remember something--it's the Finger Lakes. Rather heavily populated, and not too many natural predators around.
I've got to go back up to just south of FT Drum again today, for the fourth time in three weeks. Finally, two of the five small water companies I need to look at (the last two!) decided to see on the same day! I am going to stop at Oscar's Smokehouse (on the other side of the Adirondacks, in Warrensburg) again, as per my wife's 'suggestions.' Yes, it'll also be the third time in two weeks I'll be there. Last week, I saw a black bear cub on the main street in Indian Lake, 25 feet in a tree--I didn't stop to take a picture, because I figured Momma Bear was around somewhere, and I really didn't want to have to do wind sprints trying to get away.
Ain't no way in hell ya can outrun a mama bear protectin' their young. It's always better to start wavin' yer arms, yellin' and try to appear bigger than mama! Usually works with black bear, if it's a grizz..........yer ****ed!