White Deer Herd at Army Depot

A herd of non-albino white white-tailed deer was isolated by the 24-mile perimeter fence of the Seneca Army Depot in New York in 1941, capturing a small group carrying a recessive gene. With protection from hunting inside the depot, the white deer flourished, growing to about 700 deer by the 1950s-roughly 300 of which were white-making it the largest such herd in the world.

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