Marsh Deer
Blastocerus dichotomus · Mammal
The largest deer of South America, about 110 kg, living only in marshes with standing water under 70 cm deep in the Paraná and Paraguay basins, the Pantanal and the Chaco. Webbed hooves make it a strong swimmer; it eats grasses, legumes and water-lily leaves, alone or in groups of two to five, at dawn and dusk. Jaguars and pumas hunt it; people hunted it for meat and sport and poached it for its antlers, though the meat has a name for being unpalatable.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- Alone, at dawn and dusk
- Size
- Large
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Savanna, Flooded Grassland, Swamp, Marsh
Gives
Marsh Deer Meat, Marsh Deer Antler
Sources
- Clinton Epps, Blastocerus dichotomus (marsh deer). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2000.
- Marsh deer. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Cerf des marais. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
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