Black Deer

Austin is overrun with deer. When Roxanne and I go for walks at dusk we ALWAYS see deer, sometimes 1 or 2 sometimes 20-30. Louie enjoys stalking them and then charging to scare them, although the last time he did this the deer held his ground and stomped his feet at Louie...Louie became confused at that point.
Anyway, our friends Mark and Kelly have even more deer in their neighborhood. Anytime of the day or night there could be anywhere from 1/2 a deer to 10 deer in their yard (yes they actually found 1/2 a deer in their yard one day, but that is a whole other story). The deer I like the best (other than the 1/2 deer) is the black deer. I have lived around and hunted deer for my whole life and I have never seen a black white tailed deer. It is kind of shiny too.. it looks like it rolled around in grease or shoe polish.

Here is a regular whitetail (and a white dog) for comparison.
Black deer evidently has a non-black baby. weird

UPDATE: Evidently... they are called melanistic deer as they overproduce Melanin. They are very rare indeed, although more common in Texas according to this informative article.