Melanistic Mule Deer on video!

​Melanistic Mule Deer captured on video!

David Strege writes, "The desert mule deer is a common sight in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, but when wildlife biologists conducted surveys recently, they came across an extremely uncommon sight. In fact, it was what they called “the rarest of rare” animals.
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What the Texas Parks and Wildlife—Trans-Pecos Wildlife District spotted from a helicopter and captured in video was a melanistic (black hair) mule deer fawn, “a one-in-a-million anomaly.”

Read the full article here...

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Read George Blitch's very own Melanistic story, here...