Photographer Matthew Raifman wasn’t anticipating to discover a uncommon animal when he and his household went out on the lookout for tarantulas at a park within the San Francisco Bay space. As a substitute of a furry spider, Raifman noticed one thing even higher—a uncommon, all-white deer. He told SF Chronicle that it appeared like one thing “proper out of a fairy story.”
“My October shock: discovering my first albino deer in Northern California,” wrote Raifman in an Instagram submit sharing photographs and photographs of the animal. “Albino deer happen as soon as in each 30,000 births, which means that there are solely a couple of dozen of those throughout the entire state of California. You may see how a lot the white deer stands proud towards the Northern California panorama in comparison with its siblings, making it extra susceptible to predators.”
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See Raifman’s photographs (and video) of the uncommon, 1-in-30,000 animal right here:
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