Black deer

Well, those fawns are photoshopped (rather obviously), but melanistic deer are a thing. Snopes: Black Fawn It's just that the fawns are all black, they don't have the white baby-spots (or they're very...

The chance your backyard is being savaged by a mole is quite a high one. Unless we’re talking an albino mole, this little white dude with a congenital lack of melanin, which occurs 1:100,000. But there’s something inherently beautiful about the odd ones out in this world, where everything seems identical to one another.

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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.

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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This black deer is melanistic – the dark pigment melanin is prevalent. Melanism is the opposite of albinism. See examples of other melanistic animals!

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