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The northern pudu is the smallest species of deer in the world, standing 32 to 35 cm (13 to 14 in) tall at the shoulder and weighing 3.3 to 6 kg (7.3 to 13.2 lb). [7] The antlers of the northern pudu grow to about 6 cm (2.4 in) long and curve backward.
The name is a loanword from Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of central Chile and south-western Argentina. [6] The two species of pudus are the northern pudu ( Pudu mephistophiles ) from Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , and Peru , and the southern pudu [ 7 ] ( Pudu puda ; sometimes incorrectly modified to Pudu pudu [ 8 ...
The southern pudu is characterized by being the second smallest deer in the world. It is slightly larger than its sister species, the northern pudu, being 35 to 45 cm (14 to 18 in) tall at the shoulder and weighs 6.4 to 13.4 kg (14 to 30 lb).
The Peruvian Yungas Pudu is a dwarf deer, a group of deer named for their “stocky and short-legged” builds that measure less than 17 inches in height, the study said.
Pudella carlae, the Peruvian Yungas pudu, is a species of deer from Peru. It was found in 2024 to be a distinct species from the northern pudu, from which it is separated geographically by the Huancabamba Depression. It is the first living deer species to be described in the 21st century. [1] [2]
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose).
The present name is a borrowing of the Latinized form of the Dutch muntjak, which was borrowed from the Sundanese mencek (/ m ə n t ʃ ə k /). The Latin form first appeared as Cervus muntjac in Zimmerman in 1780. [7] [8] An erroneous alternative name of Mastreani deer has its origins in a mischievous Wikipedia entry from 2011 and is incorrect ...
The name fallow is derived from the deer's pale brown colour.The Latin word dāma or damma, used for roe deer, gazelles, and antelopes, lies at the root of the modern scientific name, as well as the German Damhirsch, French daim, Dutch damhert, and Italian daino.