Residents in Farragut, Tennessee, were totally stunned when they witnessed a white-tailed deer walking leisurely through the city. Upon closer inspection, they found that the animal had hair growing out of its eyes.
As the confused citizens tried to capture the daring deer, they couldn’t help but notice that he had thick hair coming out of discs of meat that grew and covered the deer’s eyes.
It turns out that the condition is known as corneal dermoids and has only been documented in another white-tailed deer, also in Tennessee.
The condition is essentially the result of a benign tumor, composed of tissues that normally occur in other parts of the body, in this case, complete skin with hair follicles forming over the cornea or clear part of the eyeball.
According to Sterling Daniels, a wildlife biologist at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA), the deer “Maybe I could tell the day from the dark, but I don’t think I would be able to see where I was going.”
“I would compare that to covering your eyes with a towel. You could tell the day from the night, but that’s it. “
This particular bully, found wandering the streets of Farragut, Tennessee, in August 2020, was later diagnosed with epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD), which can cause fever, tissue inflammation and almost a complete loss of fear in humans, which can explain your turbid ride with your eyes to the city.
The researchers suspect that the furry eye patch probably formed while the deer was still in the womb.
It is worrying that humans can develop dermoids in the eyes, although the condition is extremely rare. It can cause blurred vision, but it does not result in extreme vision problems. Dermoids can also be removed surgically, although this tends not to improve the patient’s vision.
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