World’s Smallest Deer Under Threat From Pets

28 May 2012 Last updated at 03:25

World’s smallest deer under threat from pets

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A pudu photographed at a camera trap (c) E Silva-Rodriguez
A mother pudu and fawn living in captivity (c) E Silva-Rodriguez

The movements of the world’s smallest deer species have been tracked by a team of researchers investigating the causes of their population decline. Eduardo Silva-Rodriguez from the University of Florida used remote camera traps to study the southern pudu living in the forests of Chile.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18071369

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