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WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals #381858
10/23/07 09:09 PM
10/23/07 09:09 PM
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Oregon
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Tsarevna Offline OP
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I'm studying biology in college, the basic courses now, more advanced stuff later (biology will be my major after I complete my science transfer degree.)

I'm collecting photos of unusual animals, mainly ones that have "discoloration." If you have such a photo, I'd appreciate you sending it to me or posting it here. Let me know if I can use it on the internet, because I might make a webpage eventually about it, and/or update the Wiki online encyclopedia.
*I will not sell your photos. I will give you credit with your name if you wish.

What I am especially interested in:

Melanistic animals:
Melanism is basically the opposite of albinism, it's extra melanin pigment in the skin, making an animal look black or chocolate brown when they normally wouldn't be. For example, the "black panther" is a melanistic jaguar. It's a genetic condition.
(I now have a 'coon example, thank you Wiley. ) notworthy

Albino animals:
Albinism is a lack of melanin (a type of pigment) in skin AND eyes, which results in either a white appearance or pink; the pink coming from the blood vessels beneath the skin. (This is why albinos have pink eyes.)
Albinism does not occur in every animal species, for example, there are no known albino tigers, nor are there any historical reports of them. White tigers are not albinos, as the have blue eyes and black stripes. They suffer from a different genetic disorder...

(Albino coyotes seem to be extremely rare, I'd faint it I were lucky enough to come across a photo!)

Leucistic animals: (pronounced Loo-kism, Loo-kis-tik)
This is similar to albinism. The difference is, it can be a lack of any type of pigment in skin/hair/feathers, not just melanin. So it can result in a pure-white animal, or just make an animal have white patches. If you have ever seen a crow with some white feathers, that's leucism.

Off-color animals:
I'm especially interested in coyotes. Black ones, white ones, chocolate ones, red ones, blond ones...any sort of unusual coloring or pattern I want. Foxes with half of their tail a different color, black/blond beavers, animals with eyes of different colors (one brown and one blue eye etc)...

So, if you have any unusual animal pics, show and tell!

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: Tsarevna] #381873
10/23/07 09:19 PM
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Iowa "Coon Belt"
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My brother caught this coon last season.


If you dont like the apples dont shake the tree
Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: Montour Cooner] #381881
10/23/07 09:41 PM
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Here's a Black Coyote my daughter Katye caught last year....
Before

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The Truth is Out There....
Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: T. Meyer] #381907
10/23/07 09:56 PM
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gator that martin is SWEEET!


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Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: Rpowers] #381916
10/23/07 10:00 PM
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[IMG]http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff162/troyerickson/blackcoyote-1.jpg[/IMG]

Last edited by Blackdog; 10/23/07 10:09 PM.

Just ask your mommy...
Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: Blackdog] #382176
10/24/07 02:24 AM
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Oregon
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Tsarevna Offline OP
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Nice very nice, keep them coming. I hope to put my collection of them on a website one day, and attempt to explain all of them. I believe that's a leucistic coon, and a melanistic coon (and yote,) but that marten is pretty mysterious.

If you can in the future, try to take pictures close up of the face also, as eye color can be important in determining what's going on. And I hope you guys get these mounted. \:\)

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: Tsarevna] #382293
10/24/07 08:31 AM
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Caught an albino possum, but do not have a digital camera. Wife said I could hve it mounted fro father's day, but who the heck wants one of those ugly beasts in thier house, alive or dead.

Last edited by fatjosh; 10/24/07 08:43 AM.

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: Brownie 77] #382321
10/24/07 08:57 AM
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N MN
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Here is a piebald doe that I used to see all the time. In three years, she had three sets of twins with 4 of the 6 fawns being piebald as well.

Tim



I would rather be in my boat with a drink on the rocks than in the drink with my boat on the rocks.....
Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: ] #382333
10/24/07 09:12 AM
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Kansas,32,6-1,220,B/B NS
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yea, im just south of MORDOR!!!!!!

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: CharlesKS] #382342
10/24/07 09:24 AM
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that is a cool looking marten!

charles....man, that thing is ugly!

here's an ugly beaver i caught...



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Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: j lord] #382352
10/24/07 09:31 AM
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here's a coyote jtrapper caught



and a light color yote i caught



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Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: j lord] #382374
10/24/07 09:53 AM
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Abrams, WI
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here's Blackdog's black coyote!


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Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: blacklab] #382474
10/24/07 11:27 AM
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Corey Hain
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Here is a bobcat with white socks from last year, a friend of mine caught it.

Corey

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: ] #382524
10/24/07 12:32 PM
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oh corey!

i bet that belly was WIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE and CLEAAAAAAAAAAAR! eh?

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: CharlesKS] #382581
10/24/07 01:20 PM
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cute kitty!!


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Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: ] #382659
10/24/07 02:03 PM
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Here's a beaver with a white "collar" around the neck I caught a few yrs ago.

[url="http://www.hunt101.com/?p=451069&c=542&z=1"][/url]


Another guy caught this marten who traps near me.
[url="http://www.hunt101.com/?p=459801&c=542&z=1"][/url]

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: takotna] #382685
10/24/07 02:19 PM
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Charles....it had a nice nice belly. I need to thaw it out and get it skinned. Our local C.O. caught it last winter in a bucket. Real odd, i've had my hands on a bunch of dead cats, but never seen one with the white socks like this one had.

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: Sullivan K] #382738
10/24/07 02:54 PM
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i hear ya corey. i got one similair a couple years ago, really white feet, NOT socks, but by far the best belly i ever got on a cat.


Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: CharlesKS] #382750
10/24/07 03:02 PM
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here is a marten for ya... also check out the kermode bears..white blackbears..



glacier bear

Re: WANTED: Your photos of unusual animals [Re: ] #382827
10/24/07 04:23 PM
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I got 25 Black Richardsons ground squirrels frozen whole in my deepfreeze. And don,t tell me that they are common! Melanistic variation . Whithout the watermelon!

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