Rudolph Turns Out to Be Female

A West Virginia hunter, recently taking down a deer, was shocked to find out the animal, complete with antlers, was female.

"It's unreal. I didn't realize what I killed," Roger Mills told the Associated Press. "When I reached down to gut it, I pulled my knife out and saw it was a doe. Well, I got real excited and dragged it by its horns, and got my neighbor Russell Harvey to help me put it in my truck. I've hunted for 50 years, and this is the first I've ever seen or heard of it."

Mills took the animal to a wildlife checking station and the officials had never seen a doe with male head features.

"It can happen," Todd Dowdy, a wildlife biologist with the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, told the AP. "I don't have any statistics on it to tell you how often they appear or how rare it is, but it's very rare."

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