Huh?  That’s correct.  A BLACK Whitetail.

OK, this animal has a condition named melanism.  Melanism is the opposite of albinism.  Where albinism is a condition where the animals has less pigmentation,  melanism is an condition where the animal has excess pigmentation or melanin.

Here are some posts of some beautiful albino animals including twin deer.

Black Whitetail

Thanks, Hunter.

Here are a couple of massive mule deer sent to me recently.

This one reportedly taken in Nebraska

This one taken in Maine

Thanks, Hunter.

Wow.  These are really cool photos of a snake consuming a monitor lizard.  Reportedly in Arizona.

Get a gander at this huge eastern diamondback rattlesnake.  Reportedly the largest ever recorded.

HUGE!

Another view of this beast

Wow.

It’s hard to tell from the photos if they killed this sucker. It would be a shame to kill such a magnificent creature. Although, I usually follow the philosophy that the only good snake is a dead snake — you know — the kind you see in jars of formaldehyde.

I’d like to to see the rattle on this one. Anyone have additional photos?

This one has been around awhile now. I’ve seen it come to my inbox via email numerous times. Still, it is an amazing video of the tenacious defense of a nest by a woodpecker.

The last time this came to me it was noted that the woodpecker was a “Mexican” woodpecker.  I don’t know what that is.  It appears to me that this is a common Pileated Woodpecker that makes it’s home all over the United States.