Comments on: Arthurian White Stag Reported

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:25:26 +0000

The white squirrel in the photo here looks like it’s actually a “chinchilla” patterned squirrel. The chinchilla pattern produces an animal with a pale - usually white - coat, each hair of which is tipped with a darker color, in this case black (note the “smudges” on the top of its head). The tipping is more noticable where the fur is short. White lions also are chinchilla patterned, in their case the coat is very pale cream or white, and since they are leucistic too, the hair is tipped with beige or fawn instead of black.

Animals with the chinchilla coat pattern are not albino. They have pigmented skin and eyes.

A gorgeous example of chinchilla patterning is the Chinchilla Persian cat (like the cat in the Fancy Feast commercials). They look white, because their fur is so long that the black tipping is only visible on close inspection, but their dark skin gives the eyes a beautiful “eyeliner” effect, and the light tipping on the snowy coat gives them a silvery appearance.

By: coelacanth1938

coelacanth1938 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:09:05 +0000

Patsy: “It’s only a model!”

By: things-in-the-woods

things-in-the-woods — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:51:37 +0000

the last white stag in england (devon)? - shot, hung from a tree, and its head cut off by trophy hunters.

lets hope this one has more luck/lives in a very remote area/lives near a friendly band of hunt sabs.

By: squatch-toba

squatch-toba — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:13:32 +0000

We have a white Black Bear in our zoo in Winnipeg. It was captured in northern Manitoba (Easterville area) after it’s mother, a regular colored Black Bear, was killed by a car.

By: maslo63

maslo63 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:11:32 +0000

Where I live in Central NY we have an entire herd of white deer (whitetail deer), the largest wild white deer herd on the planet as I understand it. I see them often but every time I do it is still breathtaking. Though honestly I am always a bit taken back by seeing any deer. Stunning animals IMO.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:43:00 +0000

It’s easy to see why the occasional white animals was revered: they are lovely.

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:25:53 +0000

What about white buffalos? The white buffalo is tremendously important in native-american mithology, is it not?

Has a white buffalo been sighted or photographed in recent times?