A Precious Moment: Passerby Spots Rare White Fawn In Magical Footage

If you take the time to appreciate nature, you might be surprised by what you’ll find. Luckily for a woman named Kim, she didn’t even have to go out of her way to spot a rare creature. In fact, she was driving to work when an especially white fawn started to cross the road. Thankfully, Kim was able to spot this adorable little one in time to stop her car, giving the fawn all the time she needed to make it to the other side.

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As you will see in the clip below, this white fawn struggles to make it across the road. But she’s not alone! Her mom eagerly waits in the nearby trees. How adorable are these two!? It’s no wonder Kim feels oh-so-lucky to have witnessed this precious moment in person.

“How was your commute to work?! Albino fawn, new to the world!” Kim writes in the caption of her post. “Momma is waiting. Listen to the little one calling for her ‘ma.'”

Although Kim refers to this surprisingly white fawn as albino, that might not actually be the case. Instead, she may have something called leucism. While albinism and leucism can present in similar ways, they are actually very different.

Albino animals have a mutated gene that interferes with their ability to produce melanin. This affects their entire body, including the eyes, making them red or pink. This can cause impaired vision. On the contrary, leucism is a reduction in all pigments, melanin being one of them.

So, even though this fawn may be about as white as an animal with albinism, her eyes seem to be normal. In any case, spotting an animal like this is incredibly rare. Typically, you see this most in creatures like birds.

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