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Near ThreatenedMaximum longevity: 21.9 years (captivity) Observations: One captive specimen lived for 21.9 years (Richard Weigl 2005).
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- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Ozotoceros bezoarticus
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- gestation period
- 221
- taxon common name
- pampski jelen
- CITES Appendix
- Appendix I of CITES
- short name
- O. bezoarticus
- taxon range
- Altamira do Paraná
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is a species of deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations. They are known as veado-campeiro in Portuguese and as venado or gama in Spanish. It is the only species in the genus Ozotoceros.
Their habitat includes water and hills, often with winter drought, and grass that is high enough to cover a standing deer. Many of them live on the Pantanal wetlands, where there are ongoing conservation efforts, and other areas of annual flooding cycles. Human activity has changed much of the original landscape.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pampas deer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.