While driving through rural Iowa at dusk, Kurt Massimilla and his family experienced a once-in-a-lifetime wildlife encounter - spotting not one, but two rare albino deer.
The Peosta resident says the incident was an extreme rarity — with some estimates placing the odds of seeing two together at 1 in 400 million, he says.
The sighting occurred on March 29 as they were heading home from a birthday dinner for Massimilla’s 13-year-old son.
The Peosta resident says the incident was an extreme rarity — with some estimates placing the odds of seeing two together at 1 in 400 million, he says.
The sighting occurred on March 29 as they were heading home from a birthday dinner for Massimilla’s 13-year-old son.
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00:00Oh my goodness.
00:02You got it?
00:04There's two.
00:05Where? I want to get it.
00:07There's one right out there.
00:09Where? Right there. There's one right there.
00:11Hold on. I can't get it.
00:15Keep going. Keep going.
00:16I can't. Okay. Let me get a picture.
00:18I got both.
00:21I didn't know that was a thing.
00:23Albino deer? Yeah, albino deer is a thing.
00:27I want to search up how rare they are.
00:30Let me search up how rare they are real quick.
00:32That is so awesome.
00:34I have never seen albino deer.
00:36How rare are albino deer?
00:38Alright, before we get...
00:40Okay, we can see.
00:42Albino deer are extremely rare
00:44with an estimated occurrence of about 1 in 30,000 deer birds.
00:50What?
00:51And here we see two.
00:5330,000!