My favorite animal
My favorite animal is a small deer that inhabits the south of our country, the Pudu. The Pudu is the smallest deer in America, its size is 40 centimeters. They tend to be brown, reddish in color and in lesser quantities have been seen white Pudu. This animal is very shy and cautious, usually looking for its food at night, which is based on leaves of maqui and chilco bush. There are two species, the Pudu Mephistophiles that lives in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, and the Pudu Puda, this is the one that lives in Chile from Curicó to Aysen, being more abundant in Chiloé, they also live in Argentina. The Pudu is currently in a vulnerable state due to the indiscriminate hunting of it, also due to the destruction of the forests and the introduction of other species, and partly due to the pumas, which are its predators. I have always liked Pudu, the first time I heard about it and it caught my attention was because of its size and being called the smallest deer in the world, ...