CYBER CERVIDS: The advent of e-mail and the Internet 
have wildlife biologists sorting fact from fiction ... Details 
ahead on Passport to Texas

PTT from TPW and the Wildlife Restoration Program

What would you do if you were to receive an e-mail with 
pictures of an albino white-tailed fawn and the claim it 
was found by the friend of a friend in east Texas? If 
you're me, you'd forward it to Mitch Lockwood, statewide 
white-tailed deer program leader. 

The picture does appear to be legitimate, to where it was a true 
albino white-tailed fawn. True albinos are very rare. In fact, it's 
the first picture that I've ever seen of a white-tail that's not only 
white, but has the pink eyes and other abilnisitc features. :16

Of course, Lockwood says, he first laid eyes on the very 
images I forwarded to him about two or three years ago.

The first time I received the e-mail, the deer was reported to be 
found over at Port Bolivar. Later I got the same e-mail saying it 
was found in the piney woods of East Texas. Later it was in the 
Hill Country and then it was in North Texas :17

While the image doesn't seem to be photo-shopped, he 
says nobody can be certain where the albino fawn was 
found. 

What's funny is everybody likes to take claim. The person in Port 
Bolivar claimed to find that albino fawn, but so did the person in 
the Pineywoods and the person in the Hill Country. We don't know 
who really found it, but the fact that it occurred, I believe, is true. 
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That's our show for today ... supported by the Wildlife 
restoration Program ... providing funding for the 
operations and management of more than 50 wildlife 
management areas. 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti


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