Mazama americana (Erxleben)

VOSS, ROBERT S., LUNDE, DARRIN P. & SIMMONS, NANCY B., 2001, The Mammals Of Paracou, French Guiana: A Neotropical Lowland Rainforest Fauna Part 2. Nonvolant Species, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2001 (263), pp. 1-236 : 72

Mazama americana (Erxleben)

Red brockets are apparently common at Paracou, local hunters having killed dozens in the last decade. According to P. Petronelli (personal commun., 1993), Mazama ameri­ cana is primarily active at night; occasional daytime sightings are probably of individuals disturbed near their resting places. Although M. americana is believed to be locally more abundant than M. gouazoubira (below), we nevertheless obtained only two unambiguous sightings of red brockets in the course of our 1991–1994 inventory: (1) RSV observed a solitary individual stealthily retreating through the undergrowth of swampy primary forest in the mid­afternoon of 25 June 1991; (2) DPL saw a solitary individual in welldrained primary forest at 10:10 hours on 23 July 1993. Many unidentified deer whose eyeshine was detected in the forest undergrowth at night, or whose alarmed reactions (snorts and foot­stamps) were heard in the darkness, could have belonged to this species, or to the next.