White deer spotted on St. Joseph Island

A faithful reader photographed this distinctive white deer yesterday in a large field off Hawdon Road on St. Joseph Island.

This image raises a number of questions that require additional research, and SooToday.com needs to draw on some help this morning from our wise and knowledgeable readers:

- Is a white deer necessarily an albino deer?

- If not, how does one tell the difference?

- How rare are white or albino deer, given that their visibility obviously places them at additional risk to predators?

- Have other white deer or moose been seen on St. Joseph Island or other parts of Algoma District?

- Is the shooting of white or albino deer addressed by Ontario's hunting regulations?

- Legalities aside, are there ethical, moral or environmental reasons not to shoot a white deer?

- Do white or albino deer have cultural or prophetic significance among the Anishinabe and other traditional cultures?

Second photo by same reader

SooToday.com encourages our readers to address these questions and any other issues related to white or albino deer, using the News Response forum on our Editorials page.

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