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Project Pudu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Mark MacNamara
Mark MacNamara
Affiliation:
New York Zoological Society, Bronx Zoo, New York 10460, USA.
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The southern pudu Pudu pudu, a small forest deer, now occurs only in the temperate Valdivian rainforests of Chile and Argentina. Ninety per cent of its historic habitat, the lowland forest, has been occupied and cleared by man, bringing the pudu increasingly into contact with both man and his domestic livestock. This, coupled with increased predation, livestock diseases and competition from introduced exotic deer, has made the pudu extremely rare and locally extinct in many areas, especially in Argentina. In the IUCN Red Data Book it is classed as vulnerable.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , October 1981 , pp. 185 - 186
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1981

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