Donation Options Search Search Search Chris Shomo’s melanistic deer at American Natural Resources in Griffith, Indiana. Dale Bowman/Sun-Times Share Black and white in the natural world have a ...

MOAB — Residents in southeastern Utah quickly fell in love with an extremely rare melanistic mule deer that frolicked through their yards and around town over the past three years or so.

the annual deer harvest in Texas numbers 600,000 deer, and some years, only one melanistic deer is killed. Many years none are shot. Nationwide it’s estimated that fewer than five are harvested ...