gray brocket
mazama gouazoubira latin

The gray brocket reaches sexual maturity at an age of 18 months.

Thus, it is possible for a gray brocket to produce two offspring in one calendar year.

The coat of a gray brocket can range from gray-brown to dark brown.

However, hunters can sell the meat from one gray brocket for $15, which could be a potential motivation.

Additionally, population studies are needed to determine the status of the gray brocket in order be better equipped to help it.

Though hunting is illegal in many areas in the gray brocket's range, bans are generally not enforced.

In addition to the obvious differences in color, the gray brocket is generally smaller than the red brocket.

The gray brocket is a herbivore that chooses what it eats selectively, though it does eat a wide variety of plants.

The scientific name of the gray brocket deer comes from Félix de Azara's "Gouazoubira".

During some periods, the grays brocket may become frugivorous (primarily fruit-eating), but this depends on the season, area, and availability of fruits.

Unlike other species of brocket deer in its range, the gray brocket has a gray-brown fur without reddish tones.

Gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

Such scent-marking tactics can be part of a claim on territory if a number of markings are placed within a concentrated area by a single gray brocket.

The gray brocket is found in northern Argentina, Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

It has been treated as a disjunct subspecies of the gray brocket or a subspecies of the red brocket (Mazama americana).

Higher lands are inhabited by such mammals as the Gray Brocket, capybara, peccary, howler monkey and puma; birds include chachalacas and rails.

Among other features, the Yucatan brown brocket differs from both the red brocket and the gray brocket in the shape and measurements of the skull and antlers.

Other larger mammals include puma, ozelot, Brazilian tapir, collared peccary, white-lipped peccary, marsh deer, red brocket, gray brocket, black howler monkey and capybara.

The gray brocket occurs in 14 national and provincial reserves in Argentina, as well as 7 reserves in Bolivia, and numerous reserves in Paraguay and Brazil.

The gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira), also known as the brown brocket, is a species of brocket deer from northern Argentina, Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

In order to prevent further population declines, hunting laws need to be enforced, stray dogs from human populations should be controlled, and local village populations should be educated to preserve the gray brocket populations.

Separation of the gray brocket and the Amazonian brown brocket using external features is far harder, but the former has a more orange rump, bigger, more rounded ears, wider auditory bulla, and smaller eyes.

Azara was the first to provide a quality description of the small deer in the Americas, and he referred to the red brocket as Gouazoupita, while he referred to the gray brocket as Gouazoubira.

Gouazoubira has been maintained in the current species name, Mazama gouazoubira.

Gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

The gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira), also known as the brown brocket, is a species of brocket deer from northern Argentina, Bolivia, eastern and southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Deer endemic to the New World fall in two biogeographic lineages: the first one groups Odocoileus and Mazama americana is distributed in North, Central, and South America, whereas the second one is composed of South American species only and includes Mazama gouazoubira.