Rare Albino Buck Spotted In Northern Wisconsin

A rare albino whitetail deer buck has been spotted and photographed roaming a backyard in northern Wisconsin. Tracy Weese photographed the deer in her backyard in the unincorporated town of Boulder Junction. Albino animals are extremely rare and don’t always make it to adulthood due to their lack of camouflage.

Although the deer are beautiful, wildlife experts say their recessive genetic traits and defects would prove detrimental to deer populations should they flourish. 'They are an unusual sight because they either have multiple physical problems and die early or because of predation,' Ed Clark, president and co-founder of the Wildlife Center of Virginia, told Associated Press. 'Protecting them would not be doing the deer population any good because it would pass the recessive genes into more herds.'