{"id":202175,"date":"2026-05-25T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:18:07","slug":"rare-leucistic-fawns-rescued-in-pike-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202175\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare leucistic fawns rescued in Pike County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo leucistic fawns, which make up less than 1% of the deer population, were rescued in Greentown, located in Pike County, Pennsylvania.  The Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center said the fawns were leucistic, a condition different from albinism that still results in white coloration and is considered very rare.  The center named the fawns Dipper and Mabel, after the main characters of the cartoon &#8220;Gravity Falls.&#8221;The animals were treated for hypothermia and leg injuries.  Once they are healed, the fawns will be released back into the wild.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tGREENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Two leucistic fawns, which make up less than 1% of the deer population, were rescued in Greentown, located in Pike County, Pennsylvania.  <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"two leucistic fawns, which make up less than 1% of the deer population, were rescued in greentown, located in pike county, pennsylvania.\" title=\"Two leucistic fawns, which make up less than 1% of the deer population, were rescued in Greentown, located in Pike County, Pennsylvania.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6665c21a-2830-49fb-b08b-97312718d645.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHearst OwnedPocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center said the fawns were leucistic, a condition different from albinism that still results in white coloration and is considered very rare.  <\/p>\n<p>The center named the fawns Dipper and Mabel, after the main characters of the cartoon &#8220;Gravity Falls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The animals were treated for hypothermia and leg injuries.  <\/p>\n<p>Once they are healed, the fawns will be released back into the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two leucistic fawns, which make up less than 1% of the deer population, were rescued in Greentown, located&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[89293,89290,17452,89286,66683,89283,64780,89288,89284,89285,5129,89291,89292,28,30,29,4399,72984,72979,89289,89287],"class_list":["post-202175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-albinism","tag-cartoon","tag-condition","tag-condition-different-from-albinism","tag-deer-population","tag-dipper-and-mabel","tag-education-center","tag-fawn","tag-gravity-falls","tag-greentown","tag-hypothermia","tag-mabel","tag-main-character","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pike-county","tag-pocono-wildlife-rehabilitation","tag-pocono-wildlife-rehabilitation-and-education-center","tag-rare-leucistic-fawn","tag-treated-for-hypothermia-and-leg-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}