The sighting of white fawn on the Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa has created a stir in southern Iowa. D-N-R state deer biologist Jace Elliott says it’s not something you see every day.
“We do get reports of white deer periodically throughout the year across the state. So it’s not the first white deer that we’ve had reported in Iowa, but it certainly is a very rare anomaly in our wild deer population,” Elliott says.
He says the white coloring means the deer is either albino (al-bye-no) or leucistic (Loo-siss-stick). The odds of a white deer being born are high, but aren’t as high as the odds of winning the lottery.
