Pictures and facts about the Pygmy brocket

Pygmy brocket

Order : Artiodactyla
Family : Cervidae
Subfamily : Capreolinae
Species : Mazama nana

 

The Brazilian dwarf brocket, pygmy brocket is listed as Data Deficient (DD), inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Facts about the pygmy brocket

Mazama nana is said to favor dense vegetation such as bamboo thickets (Redford and Eisenberg 1992; Emmons and Feer 1997), and the small size of the dwarf brockets may be an adaptation to life in dense undergrowth.

The Brazilian Dwarf Brocket Deer (Mazama nana) is an endemic species of one of the most threatened ecosystems of the (Full text)

1. Mazama, genus Mazama -- (brockets)
Mazama
genus Mazama
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