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Pro Staff: The Elusive "Piebald" Deer
By Generation Wild Admin
Whenever you get out into the wild and wonderful outdoors, you never know what you might encounter. Well, that was the case for a friend of mine, Wayne Rinehart, on a very cold day in late December. Wayne was hunting in Point of Rocks, Maryland, one evening during Maryland’s late muzzloader season. That evening he harvested a whitetaile doe with a field dress weight of 90 pounds. Wayne’s deer wasn’t just your average white-tail deer; it is what is considered a piebald. A piebald deer is blotched with white and brown fur all over its body. I did a little bit or research on this and found out piebalds have also been known to have very short legs, an arched spine, and a short lower jaw. This deer showed all three of these characteristics. Statistics show that less then 1 percent of the whitetail deer population is affected by this disorder. Piebald is a genetic disorder and is not caused by disease or parasite, making the meat 100 percent safe to eat. It’s not everyday you get see something this usual when your out sitting in your tree stand or blind. Congratulations Wayne on a unique deer! Now I'm curious: What's the strangest animal you all have ever seen in the wild? —Brooke
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Comments (2)
That is a really amazing deer. The hunter probably had to look twice to make sure it wasn't a goat! I have not really seen anything strange enough to comment on compared to that!
Brooke and I saw a piebald buck on our family farm about five years ago. However there is one animal I would like to see in the wild. I have yet see a coyote.
Neat story!!!! That just looks freaky.
I once saw a squirrel that would jump and shake in mid air every few steps. It then proceeded to crawl up a tree and fall over backwards a few feet up. It tried again, but this time sideways, and fell over a shorter way up than the last time. It was definitely a funny experience.
1001352802,1327,835,Thatkid"
TK's story reminds me of a squirrel I saw acting weirdly in my neighborhood (not really in the wild...). My dad was out on our deck and said "there's a dead squirrel down there, why don't you go pick it up." So I went out about an hour later with a bag and there was no squirrel. Then I heard this high pitched squeaking noise and there was the squirrel under my deck! He was hanging onto a piece of steel gutter like his life depended on it. So I picked up the gutter and walked him down to the end of my yard and put him on the ground. But every time I moved to walk away he would lunge after the gutter and attack it. I finally got a little ways up the hill and he started following me! I managed to sneak away and left him rooting around in one of our plants. I came back and finally coaxed him to go into my neighbor's yard that has a fence, big trees and a squirrel feeder. Later I saw him (I thought dead) in that yard, but an hour later was nowhere to be found. I told a friend about it and he said "I've never seen a squirrel with narcolepsy!"
I've seen rabbits with similar symptoms as the squirrel Thatkid describes. I think seizures are fairly common in rodents but I'm not sure.
Well I have seen some wierd stuff but the best has to be watching a squirrel, the king of climbing, fall from upwards of 40ft.! I saw it immediatelly following an ice storm and I couldn't believe it. I was deer hunting. I was walking back to the house and I see this squirrel just pitch out of a tree fall to the ground, hit it like a sack of fruit, hop up and climb right back up the tree! I thought I had seen everything until about a month later I saw another one fall. This time it wasn't even icy! This one was from about the same hight and I couldn't believe it when it hopped up and just ran off apparently unharmed! I have spent lots of time in the woods since then and I have yet to see that happen again.
I haven't seen anything crazy but awhile ago, there was a six point buck in our woods that made a strange hooting sound.
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I haven't seen anything crazy but awhile ago, there was a six point buck in our woods that made a strange hooting sound.
That is a really amazing deer. The hunter probably had to look twice to make sure it wasn't a goat! I have not really seen anything strange enough to comment on compared to that!
Brooke and I saw a piebald buck on our family farm about five years ago. However there is one animal I would like to see in the wild. I have yet see a coyote.
Neat story!!!! That just looks freaky.
I once saw a squirrel that would jump and shake in mid air every few steps. It then proceeded to crawl up a tree and fall over backwards a few feet up. It tried again, but this time sideways, and fell over a shorter way up than the last time. It was definitely a funny experience.
1001352802,1327,835,Thatkid"
TK's story reminds me of a squirrel I saw acting weirdly in my neighborhood (not really in the wild...). My dad was out on our deck and said "there's a dead squirrel down there, why don't you go pick it up." So I went out about an hour later with a bag and there was no squirrel. Then I heard this high pitched squeaking noise and there was the squirrel under my deck! He was hanging onto a piece of steel gutter like his life depended on it. So I picked up the gutter and walked him down to the end of my yard and put him on the ground. But every time I moved to walk away he would lunge after the gutter and attack it. I finally got a little ways up the hill and he started following me! I managed to sneak away and left him rooting around in one of our plants. I came back and finally coaxed him to go into my neighbor's yard that has a fence, big trees and a squirrel feeder. Later I saw him (I thought dead) in that yard, but an hour later was nowhere to be found. I told a friend about it and he said "I've never seen a squirrel with narcolepsy!"
I've seen rabbits with similar symptoms as the squirrel Thatkid describes. I think seizures are fairly common in rodents but I'm not sure.
Well I have seen some wierd stuff but the best has to be watching a squirrel, the king of climbing, fall from upwards of 40ft.! I saw it immediatelly following an ice storm and I couldn't believe it. I was deer hunting. I was walking back to the house and I see this squirrel just pitch out of a tree fall to the ground, hit it like a sack of fruit, hop up and climb right back up the tree! I thought I had seen everything until about a month later I saw another one fall. This time it wasn't even icy! This one was from about the same hight and I couldn't believe it when it hopped up and just ran off apparently unharmed! I have spent lots of time in the woods since then and I have yet to see that happen again.
nice to be here.
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