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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.
A member of this family is called a deer or a cervid. They are widespread throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes . Cervids range in size from the 60 cm (24 in) long and 32 cm (13 in) tall pudú to the 3.4 m (11.2 ft) long and 3.4 m (11.2 ft) tall moose .
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
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 ...
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 ...
The larger species had proportionally longer legs than mainland deer, while the dwarf species had proportionally shorter legs. [12] The large size of the only known individual of C. major may be due to pituitary gigantism , in which case the species may be a synonym of one of the smaller species, perhaps the red deer sized C. dorothensis , [ 13 ...
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Pudella carlae is found to the southeast of the Huancabamba Depression in the Peruvian Yungas, in cloud forests along the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes.It is found in such areas as the Rio Abiseo National Park, the Yanachaga–Chemillén National Park, the Pampa Hermosa National Sanctuary, the Pui Pui Protection Forest, and the Alto Mayo Protection Forest.