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Deer herd wandering hundreds mid tank ammunition in the arsenal of the US military abandoned are facing a dark future.
According to AP, the white deer, a natural consequence of mutations, proliferate over 28km2 fenced land, at Seneca Army Depot, New York, one of the warehouses storing the most important bombing of American military in Cold War. Local authorities are seeking to put to tender arsenal in the coming months, raising concerns about the fate of the white deer herd after the sale of land.
Deer herd can survive during long periods primarily due 39km surrounding lattice erected when arsenal born in 1941. White deer is a natural genetic variants of the common brown deer. They do not lose all pigment as albinism cases, only lack of color in fur.
In the wild, white deer have very short life span and usually easily become the target of predators and hunters to find booty. Many small herd of white deer scattered in the protected area in the campus National Laboratory in Illinois, but Seneca Army Depot is the largest concentration of white America's deer.
Thanks to the protection of troops and barbed wire, white deer herd estimated number of up to 200 children. If land buyers break fence down, the deer would not survive long. "I saw a white deer every day. They are beautiful animals. I was worried deer herd were losing habitat if they sell the land," Lisette Wilson, owner of a shop selling farm produce and fruit cake next to highway opposite the armory, share.
Seneca arsenal has completed a month before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, meet storage needs of US military in 60 years. Arsenals covering a area has acreage wider Syracuse city away 64km to the northeast. Bombs and ammunition are stored in 500 tanks reinforced concrete. The US military stopped using the arsenal in 2000.
VnExpress
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