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Little red brocket (Mazama rufina)

Little Red Brocket (Mazama rufina).

The Little Red Brocket may have formed an important part of the diet of the people of the Pleistocene Las Vegas culture.

Around the volcano, you'll find outstanding hiking opportunities and wildlife such as the Andean condor, white-tailed deer, little red brocket deer and wily colpeo (Andean fox).

Other animals described are: Little Red Brocket Deer, tapir, coati, golden eagle, torrent duck, Páramo duck (Anas georgica).

In the forests below live spectacled bears, giant otters, jaguars, ocelots, margays, Brazilian tapirs, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium), little red brocket deer and Northern Pudus.

It was once treated as a subspecies of the similar Little Red Brocket, but has been considered a distinct species since 1987, though as recent as 1999 some maintained it as a subspecies.

As recently as 1999, some authorities included both the Pygmy Brocket (M. nana) and Merida Brocket (M. bricenii) as subspecies of the Little Red Brocket.

Major species of animals that are hunted by the Aguaruna include the sajino, the huangana, the Brazilian Tapir (sachavaca), the Little Red Brocket, the ocelot and the otorongo (jaguar).

Ecuador Red Brocket (Mazama gualea; considered by some authorities to be a subspecies of M. americana)

This species is sometimes considered a subspecies of Mazama rufina.

Little red brocket (Mazama rufina)

Little Red Brocket (Mazama rufina).