The unicorn deer

Sorry folks, this isn't a real unicorn chaser.

It's a deer with an extra antler right between its eyes that was caught on a motion-sensitive game camera.

Hunter Dave Ebeling captured the image in Elma, New York. Biologists quoted in a Buffalo News story propose several theories about the odd extra antler's origin, from a genetic mutation to an injury.

“It looks like a unicorn deer,” said Dave Ebeling, the hunter-photographer who caught the deer on camera Oct. 16, 2007.

Ebeling offers a very enlightened suggestion of how the mystery might best be solved: “I just wish somebody would shoot it so we’d know what that was," he told the newspaper.

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