Visitors to Hall Ranch have a chance of seeing her from early fall through early spring, as the herd she travels with moves higher into the mountains in the heat of the summer. He has seen her about four times since then. The resident ranger, Denny Morris, first remembers seeing the deer as a fawn in 2011. Hall Ranch’s white deer is leucistic with some small bits of brown fur, as well as dark eyes. Leucistic animals often have patches of color somewhere on their bodies, and the color of their eyes remains dark. Leucistic animals, however, can produce melanin but are unable to deposit it properly in their skin, fur or feathers. Unable to produce any melanin pigments in their bodies at all, albino animals are pure white in color, and their eyes are pink or red. However, true albinos are enormously rare in nature. White, yet not AlbinoĪlbinism, the condition which results in an “albino” animal, is perhaps the most well-known genetic state that renders an animal white. An animal’s lack of color can be caused by one of two genetic conditions, making it either albino or leucistic, the latter being much more common.
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The occurrence of white fur, skin or plumage in animals depends on individuals having specific mutations in their genes, and this is quite uncommon. One of these deer draws the attention of passing hikers and bikers as they too, wander through the foothills. A herd of mule deer graze quietly amidst it all. Red-tailed hawks circle in the sky, spotted towhees chatter in the trees and Nuttall’s cottontails hide in the shade of desert shrubs. Ponderosa pine trees, juniper, yucca and bitterbrush cover the red, rocky hillsides along the Antelope Trail at Hall Ranch.
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