Talk:White deer

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2007-01-11. The result of the discussion was redirect to White-tailed Deer.

I don't know what to do with the prod. I can find "white deer" as a name for albino deer relatively easily. There are also at least three herds, presumably of different species, that are white and notable for being white. But has anyone ever done a general study on white deer?

There is a herd of white-coated, non-albino deer in New York, on a former U.S. Army depot. There is a two sentence paragraph on them in White-tailed deer, plus an external link to one site with more data. They get a four page section in this book from google books (limited preview, so registering for a free account is required). They got a mention in one of the National Geographic magazines from 1959 (but it is only snippet view on Google books, so I can't tell how much it adds). There was a related CBS news story, linked in the article.

Piebald white-tailed deer can occur to a (presumably different) recessive gene. Some are documented here at a preserve in Maryland.

There is also a herd of white Fallow deer at the U.S. Argonne national laboratory in Illinois.. See [1]

In the article there is a link to a German language web-page entitled Weißes Rotwild that is about white deer. There is a herd of unknown ancestry described in Deer Park Žehušice. It may be the same; at least the string "Zehusice" appears in the German web page.

Google scholar/book searching is difficult because of places and Native Americans named "White Deer", and various things named after both of the above. GRBerry 02:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

It would be tough to write an article on this topic, since as you say the term refers to various species. One thing that might be nice is if someone could identify the deer in the image, which could then illustrate albinism in the article on whatever species it belongs to. Chick Bowen 04:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)