Brevard Zoo Welcomes ‘Peach’ the New Fallow Deer at Wild Florida Loop

Fallow deer will not be native to Florida

ABOVE VIDEO: Peach is attending to know her new habitat-mates – white-tailed deer Plum and Persimmon together with our Osceola turkey flock.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Meet Peach the fallow deer within the Brevard Zoo’s Wild Florida loop.

See if you happen to can “spot” a brand new deer resident in our Wild Florida loop! Named “Peach” by her keepers, the 3-month-old fallow deer will likely be simple to establish whilst she heads into maturity.

Fallow deer like Peach truly preserve their noticed coat all through their lives!

Peach now shares a house with the zoo’s white-tailed deer Plum and Persimmon together with the zoo’s Osceola turkey flock.

Brevard Zoo is a house for deer who can’t be launched again to their pure habitat.

Peach was discovered with out her mom by a neighborhood member within the Fort Pierce space. They raised Peach for some time earlier than she was confiscated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fee and positioned in a licensed rehabilitation facility.

Fallow deer will not be native to Florida, so the zoo stepped in to provide her a everlasting residence. This species originates from Europe, however fallow deer had been launched to a variety of international locations, together with the USA.

This species is taken into account invasive as they compete with native species like white-tailed deer for meals.

“Whereas we’re glad to provide Peach a house and our resident deer a brand new habitat-member, we wish to remind everybody that susceptible wildlife is trafficked each day around the globe – even proper right here in Florida – for the unlawful pet commerce,” stated a spokesperson for the Brevard Zoo.

“Earlier than you choose a pet, remember to perceive the place the pet got here from and by no means take an animal from its pure residence. If you happen to don’t know the place the pet got here from, discover one other supply to make sure we work collectively to cease the unlawful pet commerce of the animals all of us love.

You’ll want to say hello to Peach and the remainder of our “herd” of their Wild Florida habitat throughout from our lions! Feeding stations are positioned alongside the perimeter of their habitat if you happen to’d like to supply them a snack.”