Posted on 01/20/2010 11:06:19 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
These are the amazing pictures of an incredibly rare baby albino deer dubbed 'White Bambi' hiding with its mother in the Italian wilderness.
Disturbed by a rustling in the forest the brilliant white deer turns to face it's stalker, luckily this shot is only with a camera.
The little fawn, thought to be only eight months old, was sighted in the woods by father and daughter walkers, Massimo Del Din and Deborah.
The pair had been trekking in the beautiful Dolomite region, in Belluno, in the Italian Alps, when they caught sight of Bambi through the trees.
Through the branches the little deer and it's mother, who has normal colouring, can be seen turning to face the camera.
Italian authorities have been quick to declare Bambi out of bounds to hunters in the region, which number some 3,500 with a licence to shoot.
It is hoped the measure will stop this Bambi aping his Disney film namesake who famously lost his mother when she was shot by hunters.
Giammaria Sommavilla, provincial police chief of Belluno, confirmed the sighting as extremely rare.
He said: 'I could not believe my eyes, I have never seen an animal like so.
'It is indeed an albino fawn in the picture, taken together with her mother, who instead is normal color.
'This is not very often we spot something like him, it is very rare and the last records date back many decades.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Incredible. Thanks for sharing.
there is a variety of whitetail in NYS called the piebald - instead of red eyes it has blue - can range from white to mottled....my daughter just saw one this weekend
I’ve seen tons of albino deer within the old Seneca Army Depot in central NY. The base fence has protected them for many years.
At an Army Depot? Do they happen to glow in the dark as well? ; )
I googled Seneca Army Depot and this pic came up.
"Expecto patronum!"
I thought the same thing on reading the headline. A wondrous sight there.
They come right up to the fence by the dozens sometimes. I understand that they are not true albinos but are white due to inbreeding.
white fawn ping
Evidently it has happened before, there is a town in the panhandle of Texas named White Deer.
Was renamed that in the late 1800’s, after a nearby creek by the same name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Deer,_Texas
I see they've made cutbacks in their editing department.
Al Sharpton will file a complaint later...
There was one about a mile from us that was so tame
that people got to feeding corn to it.
One day the deer came up to back door where the feed
bucket was,It ran through the storm door and tried it`s
best to destroy the house after it got scared.
Was a beautiful animal.
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