Baby Key Deer calls Lowry Park Zoo home

Tampa, Florida - Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa has a new resident. A two-month-old Key Deer fawn named "Sugar" is settling into her new home.

The fawn was found abandoned in May on Sugarloaf Key at the National Key Deer Refuge. Veterinarians treated the then two-day-old deer, removing her damaged right eye.

Biologists decided to place her in Lowry Park Zoo's exhibit where, she'll share space with three other Key Deer and a Whooping Crane.

According to Lowry Park Zoo: "In the wild, Key deer are found only in the lower Florida Keys. They are visible throughout Big Pine and No Name Keys, and are scattered on surrounding islands. They are most active at dusk and dawn and take shelter during the heat of the day. The Key deer are the smallest of the 28 subspecies of Virginia white-tailed deer, averaging 65-80 pounds when full grown. It is thought that the Key deer population may have reached a low of less than 30 deer in the late 1950s, but numbers have rebounded to approximately 800 today."