Pudu

Pudu puda
Southern pudu
Taxonomy Pudu puda [Molina, 1782]. Citation: Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chile, p. 310 Type locality: Chile, Chiloe Prov.

Pudu communicate with each other primarily through scent marking. Glands on their face secrete a smelly substance that when rubbed on trees communicates territory boundaries. They also urinate and defecate near feeding and resting areas.

Northern Pudu (P. mephistophiles) Â- Pudú (P. pudu)
Hippocamelus
Taruca (H. antisensis) Â- South Andean Deer (H. bisulcus) ...

Southern pudu (Pudu puda)
Reeve's muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)
Tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus)
Calamian deer (Axis calamianensis)
Marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)
Red brocket (Mazama americana)
Philippine brown deer (Rusa marianna) ...

Cervids range in body size from the very small Andean Pudu (around 10 kg) to the very large moose of North America and Europe (800 kg). Some are stocky, others are slender and gracile in body shape. All have slender legs.

The biggest living member of the deer family is the moose (weighing about 800 kg); the smallest is the Andean Pudu (weighing about 10 kg).
The earliest deer appeared during the late Oligocene Epoch, roughly 35 million years ago.

deer of the size of roe-bucks or smaller, with simple spike-like antlers, tufted heads and the hair of the face radiating from two whorls on the forehead so that on the nose the direction is downwards. The smallest of all deer is the Chilian pudu ...

They range in size from the 18 pound Andean Pudu to the 1400 pound North American Moose. One characteristic shared by all cervids is long, slender legs.

DEER
Deer are a family of long-legged artiodactyls that include deer, caribou, reindeer, elk, moose, and the pudu.

DEER, WHITE-TAILED
White-tailed deer are a type of deer from the Americas.

See also: Deer, White-tailed Deer, Roe Deer, Mule Deer, Elk