#0463 · 🦊 mammals

Marsh Deer

🇳🇱 Moerashert ·Blastocerus dichotomus

VUvulnerable 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Royle Safaris · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Francisco V. Bezerra Neto · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Giselle Mangini · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © My World of Bird Photography · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Reserva Estero Camba Trapo · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Emily Turteltaub Nelson · CC BY 4.0
7. © marcoseugenio · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

9 ft). It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. Formerly found in much of tropical and subtropical South America, it ranged east of the Andes, south from the Amazon rainforest, west of the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest and north of the Argentinian Pampa. Today it is largely reduced to...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,163iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,163 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1815 (211 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.