Two ultra-rare albino deer spotted in Iowa

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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.

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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!

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