The common red brocket is a small deer that eats fruit and leaves in Peru’s dense forests.
Its head and neck are reddish brown, with white fur on the throat, ears and underside of the tail.
The Trinidadian red brocket is the island's only deer and a distinct subspecies of red brocket. Rostant and colleagues surveyed four sites over three years, walking transects during daylight in both dry and rainy seasons. The first two years overlapped with a hunting moratorium. Across 1,131.4 kilometres of transects, the team observed 312 deer.
Estimated density varied from 1 to 16 deer per square kilometre among the four sites, and from 1 to 8 per square kilometre island-wide. Estimates rose at two sites during the study. The authors say the moratorium may have had a positive effect, while the large differences among sites point to the value of setting harvest levels around local conditions.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Across four Trinidad sites, estimated density ranged from 1 to 16 deer per square kilometre and rose at two sites over three years. The first two years coincided with a hunting moratorium, which the authors identify as a possible contributor.