Albino: How often do you see one of these?

[svtruth]

Sometimes

the white morphs are not albilos, but a mutation in the gene that causes their white bellies, so that the white spreads all over.
Squirrel in OP looks like genuine albino.

 

[Speedo66]

Whole herd of white deer, not albinos, on the former Seneca Army Depot in upstate NY.

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[Loyalist Dave]

In Puebloan lore (and depending on the group) albino deer are seen as being spiritual animals and not to be hunted -their sightings thought to precede certain key events (natural, societal, or even personal) much like an omen.

Actually it's not just Puebloan lore..., I was taught that it was very bad luck to kill a white deer, and most that people see are pie-bald, mostly white with brown splotches, not actual albinos (just fyi). One penalty is very bad luck when hunting, for a long time, on the one who kills such a deer. I found out why..., I discovered I could see the pie-bald deer about 100 yards away or farther in the woods, and as it roamed closer to me, I eventually discovered it was part of a good sized group of normal color deer, that I couldn't see until they were quite close. NOW..., as long as that white deer lived, if I was surviving by hunting a good bit..., I'd want it left alone to show me at a distance where the rest of the deer were gathered. The taboo has a good practical reason to go with it. So since it might be several years until a pie-bald was produced to replace the one that I saw if I killed it..., making it much harder for me to hunt..., the "legend" was quite true.

LD

 

[RumRunner]

i have seen one. i would love to get on to taxidermy (i do a little)