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Originally Posted by mrsD
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Albino deer are slowly appearing where we vacation.
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These deer are not albino, but instead carry a set of recessive genes for all-white coats.[1] The fence creates a genetic bottleneck causing high levels of inbreeding. The constant inbreeding (mating of close relatives like parents and children, brothers and sisters, grandparents and grandchildren, greatgrandparents and greatgrandchildren...etc.) has allowed the various genes to align in offspring to be expressed as white deer.
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The same is true of other herds around the country - isolation & inbreeding.
Doc