Albino Deer ( Odocoileus virginianus truei )

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A few months ago two deer arrived to the Macaw Sanctuary NATUWA with very unique coloration. We believed it was due to a nutritional problem, but after several months they continued with the same coloration. We discovered that it is due to a mutation called albinism, a congenital absence of pigment in an individual, which makes skin, hair, feathers, roughly white, unlike the color of the species themselves.

 

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