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Little Red Brocket
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia;
Phylum:	Chordata;
Class:	Mammalia;
Order:	Artiodactyla;
Suborder:	Ruminantia;
Family:	Cervidae;
Genus:	Mazama;
Species:	M. rufina;
Binomial name
	Mazama rufina; Bourcier & Pucheran, 1852

The Little Red Brocket (Mazama rufina) is a small, little-studied deer native to the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. It is one of the smallest Brocket deer. The coat is reddish-brown to gray, with white undersides.^[2] The Merida Brocket was formerly treated as a subspecies of this species.

The Little Red Brocket may have formed an important part of the diet of the people of the Pleistocene Las Vegas culture.^[3]

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[edit] References

^ Lizcano, D. & Alvarez, S.J. (2008). Mazama rufina. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 June 2007. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.
^ Walker, Mark (2005). "Mazama or Brocket Deer Mazama species". World Deer. Biology Department, Siegen University. http://www.worlddeer.org/mazama.html. Retrieved 2007-06-10.
^ Salazar, Ernesto (2003). "Historie del Ecuador: Los primeros habitantes" (in Spanish). La Hora. http://www.dlh.lahora.com.ec/paginas/historia/historia1e.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-14.

[0] Lizcano, D. & Alvarez, S.J. (2008). Mazama rufina. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 June 2007. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of vulnerable.

[1] Walker, Mark (2005). "Mazama or Brocket Deer Mazama species". World Deer. Biology Department, Siegen University. http://www.worlddeer.org/mazama.html. Retrieved 2007-06-10.

[2] Salazar, Ernesto (2003). "Historie del Ecuador: Los primeros habitantes" (in Spanish). La Hora. http://www.dlh.lahora.com.ec/paginas/historia/historia1e.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-14.

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