nPosted on March 11, 2020
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nThere are these very small deer that live on some very small islands in Florida. Because the islands are called the Florida Keys, the deer are called key deer.
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nSome people say that key deer are just white-tailed deer that don’t get very big, and others argue that key deer are an actual sub-species. Whichever is the true case, key deer are generally only half as large as white-tailed deer!
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nWhen full grown, they are less than two and a half feet tall, and they weigh less than 75 pounds.
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nUntil the 1930s, it was legal to hunt key deer. Even when hunting them became illegal, some people poached (illegally hunted) them – and key deer almost went extinct.
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nIt may be that the population went down as low as 25 to 50 key deer! Yikes!
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nThe best place to look for key deer, these days, is the National Key Deer Wildlife Refuge on Big Pine Key. There are also a lot of deer on No Name Key.
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