The piebald deer spotted frolicking in an Oregon field last month makes average look overrated, donning a coat sprinkled with bits of white ... species but rather a “black-tailed deer with ...

But late this summer a little white animal with black spots arrived that ended ... we could about her online and figured she was a piebald deer, which are super rare and made her even more special.

Melanistic, or black, deer have more melanin than usual. All three conditions are rare, affecting fewer than one in 100 deer. Piebald white-tailed deer sometimes have malformed legs, noses ...

“This special deer appears all black except for quick flashes of ... making it even more rare than an albino (all white hair) or piebald (white spotted) mule deer. A one-in-a-million anomaly.

The Piebald recessive gene causes deer to be mostly white with patches of normal fur color. Unlike albinos, Piebald deer have normal eye color. That said, the genes responsible for causing Piebald ...

What the Texas Parks and Wildlife—Trans-Pecos Wildlife District spotted from a helicopter and captured in video was a melanistic (black ... white hair) or piebald (white spotted) mule deer.