After the Norwegian "shoot or save the rare white moose" debate, it's the Germans' turn: just months after Germany decided to kill of the cuddly, yet violent, Bruno the Bear, the country now has to decide what to do with an albino deer:
Roaming the 900 hectare deer range at the foothills of the Erzgebirge Mountains in eastern Germany is a snow-white deer with pink eyes and skin. An albino deer -- one in 100,000 according to estimates by zoologists. Softened German hearts are bleeding. The animal should be protected, people say. "As a rarity and natural phenomenon, it should be allowed to live," a spokeswoman for the environment ministry of the state of Saxony said.
What she meant was, the cute little albino deer should be saved from death by rifle. 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."
Before on Neatorama: Rare White Moose? Let's Shoot it, Said Norwegians.
Except, um, don't...let it be slain by a predator instead, much more dignified way to go. Not that animals care about dignity, but that's another issue alltogether.
Notice the picture, the albino roe deer is in the company of two bucks that are not fighting. The albino roe deer is either female or a yearling, either way that is not normal behavior. Conclusions: these deer are in captivity. Only the guy who owns them is going to shoot them.
But I agree... It is the male mind that is truely at fault here. Men alone must destroy what does not fit. Yes, that makes sense. Oh, wait... Does it???
Must... resist... urge... to Godwin.
God, (if you can hear me), please let a white (buck with 4" spikes) deer walk in front of my blind on 15Nov this year in the great state of Michigan.
Look here. This little mixed-Albino fawn. If you killed the doe, or this buck, just because they are different, there would be no mixture of the fawn.
http://one-shot-kill.tripod.com/37-with-Priscilla-062002.jpg
Oh, how abotu a black bear, here? The mother has an albino cub! Kill the male or female, mother or father, and this little cub wouldn't have even been here!
http://www.wyomingoutdoorsradio.com/Copy%20of%20Albino%20bear%202.jpg
Or a Mixed-albino giraffe!
http://animals.timduru.org/dirlist/giraffe/Albino_WhiteGiraffe_Runs.jpg
Or, to say, albino zebra.
http://www.geocities.com/cruelblogmon/albino2.JPG
If we never have seen these creatures in the wild, alive, we wouldn't hunt them. But we find these albino animals, and think right away "That will look good in front of my Fireplace" or "That is a nice buck / doe." We never think twice.
http://homepage.mac.com/benbabusis/nzweb/nzweb-Images/18.jpg
Were tigers and zebras killed, because they are different? Not that I know of! Just because they have their coats, and somewhat are game and food. Lookey here, at the tiger variations. Would you kill these creatures? Maybe for you life, yes. But just for their coats?
http://www.tigerhomes.org/animal/curriculums/images/tiger-colors.jpg
well if you believe the theory of evolution, everything that on earth is a mutant...
maybe everything should get shot