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I don't know what to do with the prod. I can find "white deer" as a name for albino deer relatively easily. There are also at least three herds, presumably of different species, that are white and notable for being white. But has anyone ever done a general study on white deer?
There is a herd of white-coated, non-albino deer in New York, on a former U.S. Army depot. There is a two sentence paragraph on them in White-tailed deer, plus an external link to one site with more data. They get a four page section in this book from google books (limited preview, so registering for a free account is required). They got a mention in one of the National Geographic magazines from 1959 (but it is only snippet view on Google books, so I can't tell how much it adds). There was a related CBS news story, linked in the article.
Piebald white-tailed deer can occur to a (presumably different) recessive gene. Some are documented here at a preserve in Maryland.
There is also a herd of white Fallow deer at the U.S. Argonne national laboratory in Illinois.. See [1]
In the article there is a link to a German language web-page entitled Weißes Rotwild that is about white deer. There is a herd of unknown ancestry described in Deer Park Žehušice. It may be the same; at least the string "Zehusice" appears in the German web page.
Google scholar/book searching is difficult because of places and Native Americans named "White Deer", and various things named after both of the above. GRBerry 02:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC)