White-tailed Deer (?)

[TheSheWolf]

Just an image I found interesting. Here's part of it, cut:



Just a whitetail, right? --And here's the full image...

Spoiler:

I absolutely thought I was looking at a whitetail looking at that butt--with minor differences (like tail shape, maybe a bit shorter body?, foreleg color). Pretty cool that a fairly unrelated animal can be so similar in morphology!

Animal is a Southern Reedbuck, native to Africa, and a bit smaller than Whitetails.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_reedbuck

[Tod1d]

Yeh, pretty cool. The only thing that struck me as odd was the pointy rump. Even the full image, only the face is just slightly different from a whitetail.

[InstinctiveArcher]

Jim Dougherty who was somewhat of a bow hunting pioneer said that the reedbuck in Africa made him feel a bit more at home while hunting there since they reminded him so much of whitetails. They definitely have some resemblance as long as their head is behind a tree.

[TheSheWolf]

Ahh that's a really nice anecdote!