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Grey brocket deer

Grey Brocket Deer
Mazama gouazoupira Grey Brocket Deer image
Makushi name: Empuma, Kariyakî 
Size: body=80 cm; weight=15 kg 
Description: Small, slender deer with a rounded body and arched back. Short, straight antlers in male (female lacks antlers). Body greyish-brown; legs, mid-back, and forehead darker; underparts whitish throughout; tail white underneath; ears and legs relatively long compared to Red Brocket Deer. Young greyish-brown with white spots. Eyeshine bright yellowish-white. 
Activity: Mainly diurnal, terrestrial. 
Habits: Usually solitary. Feeds primarily of fruit with some vegetation. Usually silent, it snorts when alarmed and may also raise the tail as a flag. 
Habitat: Primary and secondary forest, often near streams. 
Signs: Tracks similar to, but slightly smaller than, Red Brocket Deer. Split hoof prints taper smoothly to narrow tips. Entire track triangular in outline. Tracks of peccaries are similar but have rounded tips. 
Status: Uncommon to locally common in Iwokrama. Usually less common than the Red Brocket Deer. 
Distribution in Iwokrama

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