I just got this email the other day . I don't know if has been around yet or not. I thought I'd post for others to enjoy.


WE HAVE photographerRichard Buquoito thank for these beautiful images, which were shot near Austin, Texas in May 2010. Mr. Buquoi confirms that the black fawn depicted in them is real.

"That area of central Texas seems to have a concentration of black 'white-tailed' deer, although it is still extremely rare to find them," he wrote in answer to my email query. "This is a wild deer, but resides in a greenbelt near a neighborhood. The two fawns in the photos are twins, but only the one is black."
The technical term for all-black (or mostly-black) deer is "melanistic." Of the three generally recognized pigment anomalies in whitetail deer (includingalbinismandpiebaldmarkings), experts say melanism is the rarest.