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The scientific name of the gray brocket deer comes from Félix de Azara's gouazoubira.Azara was the first to provide a quality description of the small deer in the Americas, and he referred to the red brocket as gouazoupita, while he referred to the gray brocket as gouazoubira, which has been maintained in the current species name, Mazama gouazoubira.
Little red brocket. M. rufina (Bourcier, Pucheran, 1852) Northern Andes mountains: Size: About 78 cm (31 in) long, plus 8 cm (3 in) tail; about 45 cm (18 in) tall at shoulder [30] Habitat: Forest, shrubland, and grassland [31] Diet: Herbs as well as other plants [31] VU Unknown [31] Mérida brocket. M. bricenii Thomas, 1908: Northern Andes ...
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Gray brocket; L. Little red brocket; M. Mérida brocket; P. Pygmy brocket; R. Red brocket; S. Small red brocket This page was last edited on 22 May 2022, at 07: ...
Depending on species, brocket deer are small to medium-sized with stout bodies and large ears. The head-and-body length is 60–144 cm (24–57 in), the shoulder height is 35–80 cm (14–31 in), and the typical weight 8–48 kg (18–106 lb), though exceptionally large M. americana specimens have weighed as much as 65 kg (143 lb).
The Mérida brocket (Mazama bricenii), also known as the Meroia brocket or rufous brocket, [2] [3] is a small species of deer. It is found in forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,000–3,500 metres (3,300–11,500 ft) in the Andes of northern Colombia and western Venezuela . [ 2 ]
The Cervinae or the Old World deer, are a subfamily of deer.Alternatively, they are known as the plesiometacarpal deer, due to having lost the parts of the second and fifth metacarpal bones closest to the foot (though retaining the parts away from the foot), distinct from the telemetacarpal deer of the Capreolinae (which have instead retained these parts of those metacarpals, while losing the ...
The taruca is a medium-sized deer with a heavy body. It measures 128 to 146 cm (50 to 57 in) from head to rump, with an 11 to 13 cm (4.3 to 5.1 in) tail, and stands 69 to 80 cm (27 to 31 in) tall at the shoulder.