Meet Plum, Our New White-Tailed Deer Fawn!

Brevard Zoo recently welcome white-tailed deer fawn Plum to our Wild Florida loop! Plum can’t be released back to her natural habitat. Plum was less than a month old when she was found injured and separated from her mother, who was never found. Plum went to a licensed wildlife rehabilitation facility.
While the facility’s team nursed Plum back to health with the hope of releasing her to her natural range, Plum has an abnormal gait that prevents her from walking and running normally. This is due to a deformity of her femur, which could have been caused by a previous injury or a birth defect, according to Dr. Trevor Zachariah, the Zoo’s director of veterinary programs.