Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Artiodactyla > Cervidae > Pudu > Pudu pudaPudu puda (southern pudu; pudu)Synonyms: Capra puda; Ovis pudu; Pudu pudu The pudús (Mapudungun püdü or püdu, Spanish: pudú, Spanish pronunciation: [puˈðu]) are two species of South American deer from the genus Pudu, and are the world's smallest deer. The name is a loanword from Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of southern Chile. The two species of pudús are the northern pudú (Pudu mephistophiles) from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, and the southern pudú (Pudu puda; sometimes incorrectly modified to Pudu pudu) from southern Chile and south-western Argentina. Pudús range in size from 32 to 44 centimeters (13 to 17 in) tall, and up to 85 centimeters (33 in) long. As of 2009, the southern pudu is classified as near threatened, while the northern pudu is classified as vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.04 EDGE Score: 3 |
Adult Weight [1] | 22.046 lbs (10.00 kg) | Birth Weight [1] | 1.984 lbs (900 g) | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 10 % | Diet - Plants [2] | 80 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 10 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | Female Maturity [1] | 9 months 4 days | Male Maturity [1] | 10 months 20 days | | Gestation [1] | 6 months 20 days | Litter Size [1] | 1 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 18 years | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 33 inches (83 cm) | Weaning [1] | 61 days |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4Plant/frugivore interactions in South American temperate forests, JUAN J. ARMESTO, RICARDO ROZZI, PAMELA MIRANDA and CARLOS SABAG, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: 321-336, 1987
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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