THE US REPORT

(Prato, Italy)--A deer roaming grounds at the Natural Sciences Centre of Prato suggests unicorns of ancient myth and legend were not entirely fictional creatures. The deer, the Center says in a news release, "...instead of classical horns biforcate has only a single horn at the center of the forehead." The release calls the phenomenon a "morphological anomaly." As the photo below shows, the creature is a dead-ringer for a unicorn.

The Center is a foundation which belongs to the Council of Prato, a polyvalent structure and a point of social aggregation that carries many studies, research and operating activities for the environmental defense. It also includes a natural sciences museum and a natural park with free animals. 

Many visitors have come to see this unique creature, but he's a little shy. Many viewers use binoculars to see the deer moving among the grass and pine wood.  Deer in many parts of the US are not shy because development has reduced their habitat as populations have increased. The Prato deer may be a deer technically, but to those of us with imagination, he's a light brown unicorn, roaming the lush grounds of the Natural Sciences Centre of Prato.

[Text by Kay B. Day with much help translating Italian to English by way of Google; photo of this beautiful creature is courtesy of the Natural Sciences Center of Prato news release.]