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Article: ALBINO MULE DEER A RARE, EERIE SIGHT.(SPORTS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 20, 1997
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Byline: Brett Pauly Daily News Staff Writer
The tales had circulated within the hunting community for decades: apparitions among deer, with pink eyes and snow-white bodies. Nature's anomalies, so rare that some wildlife biologists are unfamiliar with them, yet so revered by American Indian coastal tribes of Northern California that dances were choreographed in their image.
``They have absolutely no color other than white and occur naturally at some low rate. They look like ghosts, especially at night,'' said Sonke Mastrup, a biologist with the Department of Fish and Game's deer program in Sacramento.
Mastrup had heard the same stories for years ...