Looks alot like a Sika deer. I killed a stag on Friday. But never saw a doe so dark. One way to tell if its a sika is if it has K9's like a elk. Whitetail do not. There are different breeds of sikas. Here's a sika.

The tail(what is visable) looks like a whitetails! Maybe just mutated color gene.If it is just mutated color it's a good one to take out of gene pool!

Ears too big to be a sika,Sika usally smell real musky too! Noticed something else in the picture ZREX I hope it is a Sika or some exotic,or your partner is handicapped,the crossbow could be a problem hunting deer right now!I could be wrong...I am most the time!

hes a disabled vet

That is a dead deer. I've seen them before. Usually identified by the fact that they are "allowing: a human to touch them.

Hope this helps.

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The face looks like Gizmo from the gremlins. Damn those little gremlins

Im 99% sure its a melanistic button buck. They are very rare, its too bad it couldnt grow a set of antlers before getting shot. It looks exactly like any other button buck besides the color.

Ihave heard of melanistic deer, but no, I have never seen one and likely never will. I did some research and found that a black deer is much rarer than an albino or piebald. There seems to be a pocket of melanistic deer in central Texas, but other than that they are just freaks of nature, with one popping up here and there once in a while.

Its melanistic its a one in a million chance and a hundred times less likely than an albino but there are a few in Texas from what I have read. Albinos are caused by a lack of pigment in their body melanistic are coused by the opposite an over abundance of it.

This is a picture from an article I read.

It is a fallow button buck. Trust me, worked on an exotic ranch north west of San Antonio fora few months. They come in colors ranging from black to white.



(this is not me, got it of the web)