The World’s Rarest White-Faced Fawn Gains New Life After He Was Rejected By Mother(video)
According to MLive.com, the rare white-faced fawn found a lovely home on a livestock farm in Michigan after her mother refused postnatally. A fawn named Dragon is only a week and a half old and is just as adorable as his fierce name. According to Fox 17, the Dragon was born at Deer Tracks Junction, an animal farm in Cedar Springs, Michigan.
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Hilary Powell, a farmer and surrogate mother to the fawn, told the news agency that Dragon had been abandoned by her mother. Perhaps because he was born with a white face that made it difficult to survive in the wild. “In the wild, they are very, very rare,” Powell said of Dragons.
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The baby deer’s mother, a doe named Bunny, was a white-tailed deer. Born with bright blue eyes and a pink nose, Dragon was rejected after birth perhaps because he didn’t resemble other fawns, Powell told MLive.com. “Normally they have black noses,” Powell told Fox 17.
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“[A pink nose] is actually a disadvantage in nature, because without shade, their nose is very sensitive to the sun and can get sunburned.”
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But baby Dragon is currently being cared for with a lot of love. Powell and his family will continue to bottle-feed the boy until he is ready to meet the farm visitors and participate in deer games.
