A record of a dwarf brocket from lowland Madre de Dios, Peru
Deer Specialist Group News
2004
Journal Article
19
2-5
Los Amigos animals mammals single-species study Mazama deer distributions Madre de Dios Bibliography
The South American dwarf brockets (Mazama spp.) are known from few museum specimens, and their geographic ranges and population status are poorly known (Wemmer 1998; IUCN 2002). We report here on a dwarf brocket photographed by camera trap in the Madre de Dios region of SE Peru. We believe that this is the first published record of a dwarf brocket in the lowland Amazonian rainforest of Peru and, possibly, the first unambiguous record of dwarf brocket from all of the Amazonian lowlands. It seems to be a new species record for Peru and comprises either a major range extension of a known species or, possibly, an undescribed taxon.