Anonymous Coward User ID: 140587 United States 09/24/2006 12:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What's up with the 'white' animals? White deer herd... Safaris will give peek at unusual white deer SENECA, N.Y. The public will soon get a chance to peek at an unusual herd of white deer in central New York. Next month, limited public tours will be offered at the closed-down Seneca Army Depot, where officials have been protecting the unusual herd of white deer for more than half a century.The Army erected 24 miles of fence to keep the deer in when the ten-thousand-acre depot was first built. Initially, there were just a few white deer, but their numbers grew with inbreeding over the years.About a third of the 500 deer in the herd are now white. They are not albinos, but simply carry a recessive gene for white hair.Seneca White Deer, the nonprofit group organizing the tours, is hoping acquire the land from the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency and offer safaris permanently. [ link to www.wbay.com] |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 140587 United States 09/24/2006 12:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: What's up with the 'white' animals? White deer herd... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 140587 United States 09/24/2006 12:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: What's up with the 'white' animals? White deer herd... We all know about the white buffalo prophecy by now, but from the viewpoint that it's a natural and predictable happening, cyclical perhaps, it takes on more meaning if we look at it from this way:
1 white squirrels 2 white deer 3 white buffalo
Note the chronology of smaller critters to the largest critters. Hmm.
Just thinking out loud. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 90982 United States 09/24/2006 01:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: What's up with the 'white' animals? White deer herd... I have a white rabbit with pink eye. |