AWESOME RAREST OF ALL, MELANISTIC BUCK MATING WHITETAIL

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Uploaded by on Feb 28, 2008

Video shows several very rare and unique events. First it shows a very rare melanistic whitetail. These black or melanistic deer are much rarer than white or piebald deer. This deer then disappeared, but another melanistic deer (having a black patch on its back) came into view.

It also shows mating deer and in another unique event a buck deer appears to mount another buck. However, because some female deer can have antlers, this deer might also be a very rare antlered doe. Both are unicorn deer, with one antler.

Either way it is shows extremely unique activity -a 1 in a billion view. It shows 1 or 2 melanistic deer, mounting behavior, a melanistic deer in mounting behavior, and a buck mounting either a melanistic buck or a melanistic antlered doe.

Melanistic or black whitetails are very, very rare, and much rarer than either white piebald or albino deer, which are also extremely rare. They are the rarest of all. A person can recognize a melanistic deer because they produce too much of the pigment known as melanin and this makes them much darker than a typical whitetail. Some are even black. Of the millions of deer taken each year only a very few with melanism have been reported. Most people don't know they even exist because of their extreme rarity. A melonistic buck is a true trophy.

Some melanistic whitetails are very dark and some are even pure black. This one, as can be seen when he turns his head, has a brown face. He is not pure black. At the end is another buck deer taken several minutes later under the same lighting conditions showing the normal buff or brownish color of a whitetail deer.

I saw this whitetail this morning and immediately began filming (08.02.23). There had been an ice storm last night and it was very cold. I set my camera down to get a coat, but even though I was inside and some distance away, the deer appeared to hear me. The next time I looked it was gone. Two whitetail bucks came into view, shown at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isgEerx2Hi8.

One of these two was melanistic with a large black patch on its back. I don't know whether it was the same deer or not. The two deer that appeared afterward each had one antler. The first deer that was laying down appeared to have two antlers. Brothers sometimes stick together and, thus, two melanistic deer could be seen together. The odds would be astronomical that two melanistic deer would be seen together by coincidence. The two bucks showed mounting behavior in bucks. Both were unicorn bucks with only one antler.

I later found out that another person had seen a deer that was almost all black in this area. Because black deer are so rare, it is likely that it was the first one seen in this video.

Other views of wild deer on the farm include:
Big Bucks Fighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Steezj61Dsk
Monster Non-Typical Moose-Sized Buck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCaXqf-FPTI
A white deer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tArW4yW4WE
Other views of this white deer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJmzjgclqk
Another white deer on the farm -- the banded one & sibling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wilKE77tNCA
A white deer being stalked by coyotes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJmzjgclqk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-KgLz2QCg
Several strange deer on the farm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKMF7wZW_0
Three deer fighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKethdqSHXg
Big bucks run and jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKY825zkWtI
Big bucks fighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbvO0x_UCxU
Deer and coyote standoff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjsIW3UgeQ
Big Bucks & Antler sheds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KvqVzMYyag

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  • @iloveyouBarboro I know that range! Broke Buck Mountain, right?

  • no thats a san francisco buck!

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  • THANK YOU FOR NOT SHOOTING AND KILLING THESE ANIMALS

  • melanism is not a new species it is just a mutation, like albinism.

  • How gay, They both have antlers, which mean's its too males banging.

  • homosexual deer! thats just unheard of

  • Two young bucks that each dropped an antler is what I see. 

  • If they're so rare how come there's two in this video and another in some other video. They sound like they're becoming pertty common pretty fast.

  • gay deer!!!! 0_0

  • These are juvenile males AFTER breeding season. That is why they all have single antlers. they are dropping them. The mounting you videographed is a dominance exhibit.

  • Thats a Democrat deer.

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