November 6th, 2006

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One of These Deer is Not Like the Others

albino-deerVia Neatorama, an extremely-rare albino deer has appeared in the mountains of eastern Germany. Quizzically, there’s apparently some debate as to whether it should be shot or not. Check out this eerie quote:

Some hunters have already set their sights on the uncommon animal; a spectacle of nature to some is a freak of nature to others. Günter Giese, the president of the Saxony Hunting Federation, said: “The white deer is a mutation. It does not belong in the wild. It should be shot.”

Sheesh, that doesn’t sound disturbingly familiar, does it?

I don’t know how long one can make off-colour jokes at the expense of the Third Reich, but I couldn’t skip this one.

Comments: 5 Responses so far

Krishen
November 7th, 2006
2:36 am

Geez. That *is* a bit disturbing. “Hello, I am God.”

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Alice in wonderland
November 7th, 2006
4:19 am

Regretably, this is another story about the need to just fit in with the crowd.

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Ross
November 7th, 2006
6:19 am

I remember reading about a similar incident involving another albino forest-dwelling animal - a moose, maybe? Authorities in that case were also considering putting out a hit on the rare animal. Their reason for considering the move was that they were concerned the animal would breed, thus spreading its genes further through the general moose (or deer in this case) population. And an albino moose/deer is much easier to spot, and therefore hunt in a wooded area; so the concern was allowing the albino to live might be a risk to the overall moose population levels.

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Metro
November 7th, 2006
12:18 pm

Hardly “off colour”, when you consider it …

Geez–You’d think a pure, white, animal wouldn’t be a problem.

Is that too much of the Reichshumour?

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Celia
November 7th, 2006
9:03 pm

I didn’t make the connection to Nazism at all. What that brought to mind were the noblemen in medieval times always hunting for some fabled silver or golden deer. I recall the White Stag in the Narnia books, Sir Francis Drake’s “Golden Hind”, and Wyatt’s “Whoso List to Hunt”

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