White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The species was far from the most important food resource at that time, though.

It is not, however, the first white deer to be spotted in the city. Nearly two years ago, a young couple saw one near 12 Mile and Orchard Lake Roads grazing on grass near a parking lot. A white ...

Albino deer by contrast only happen in an estimated one in 20,000 to 30,000 deer births, according to experts. The family spotted not one, but two different white deer in the same field.