The report (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/17/conservation) that a rare white (leucistic) Red deer stag has been recorded by rangers on the west coast of Scotland has generated some excitement. Such deer have been regarded as messengers from the afterlife in Celtic mythology and there are concerns that poachers would be keen to take such an unusual prize (as apparently happened to the only other recently recorded of its ilk on Exmoor). Of course, leucistic Red deer are well known elsewhere. In deed, a friend and colleague, Ludek Bartos studied an entire herd of such animals in a park outside Prague in what is now the Czech Republic.
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