I do, I do, I do believe in unicorns!

Well, it looks like my seven-year-old daughter was right after all. Unicorns do indeed exist.

This cute little fella is a one-year-old Roe deer living in the Centre of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy (near Florence). The director if the centre, Gilberto Tozzi, is clearly a man with a sense of humour. “This is fantasy becoming reality,” said Tozzi recently. “The unicorn has always been a mythological animal.”

Even though this is the first documented case of deer with a centrally positioned single horn (off-centre positioning is not unheard of), Tozzi believes that if it can happen now, it may also have happened in the past, and this creature may actually be very similar the original inspiration for the unicorn myth.

This particular deer, lovingly dubbed “Unicorn” by his keepers, is a genetic anomaly; his twin with a simply average pair of horns (no photo ops for you!).

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_fe_st/italy_unicorn
Photo: AP Photo