![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than smashing through hard seed-shells with powerful jaws, like peccaries, red brocket deer dissolve their food through gut-fermentation. It is believed that red brocket deer can deal with this less-than-ideal diet by way of fermentation. So their diet consists of a lot of fruits and seeds with hard casings or toxins because those are the ones that the monkeys toss aside. While the monkeys high above get their choice of the best fruits, the brocket deer down belong get what the monkeys drop or don’t want. In these dense tree-filled habitats, one will come across many fruits and seeds. Since red brocket deer live in thick tropical forests, they eat what that type of environment provides. Their smaller size allows them to slip through the undergrowth, and their dark color enables them to blend into an environment where the sun is mostly blocked by the overstory. Their smaller size and darker color also match their dark, tight quartered habitat. Instead, the red brocket deer walks with its head held low, keeping its branchless, backward facing antlers out of the tangles of vegetation. If it took its cues from the white-tailed deer, it would walk about ten meters and get its antlers stuck. The red brocket deer on the other hand lives in thick jungle complete with dense vegetation and tangled vines. The white-tailed deer lives in open habitats where it walks around with its head held high, generally not getting those impressive antlers caught in the underbrush. Interestingly enough, where these two species of deer live and what their antlers look like are related. ![]() Finally, white-tails have large, branching antlers and red brocket deer have short, backward-facing, spiked antlers. White-tailed deer live in more open habitats while red brocket deer prefer thicker bush. White-tails are a light tan, while red brocket deer are generally a darker brown, even reddish-brown. White-tailed deer, averaging about 51 inches tall and 65 pounds, are larger than red brocket deer which come in at about 43 inches and 55 pounds. Since we’re all more familiar with the white-tailed deer, it may be helpful to explain the red brocket deer in comparison. It’s not a goat, but it is approximately goat-sized and has goat-like horns, so I get it. Cabro de monte translates to something like mountain goat, goat of the mountain or wild goat, all of which are inaccurate. You’d expect its Spanish name to be something like venado rojo but somebody threw a monkey wrench into the naming system and cabro de monte popped out. The red brocket deer is one of a handful of brocket deer species found in the Americas, but the only one found in Costa Rica. Now let’s take some time to learn about the other, lesser-known species, the red brocket deer. At the end of 2000, the MDT signed a memorandum to begin working with the tribes on the improved highway.Costa Rica is home to two species of deer. Working in partnership with an architectural firm in Seattle, Jones & Jones, the Salish and Kootenai tribes used Indigenous knowledge provided by tribal wildlife ecologists to design safe highway crossings for wildlife and people. That’s not how we do things here,’” said Michael Jamison, campaign director of the National Parks Conservation Association. “Because this was happening on a stretch of road that passed through a sovereign nation… they had this veto card in their hand to be able to say, ‘No, we’re not doing that. The protection of wildlife is also part of a generational duty that tribes take upon themselves to maintain a healthy ecosystem and nurture the connection to their culture. Community tribal members raised concerns about how such a road could pose more danger, not just for wildlife, but also for children and school buses that cross the highway. ![]()
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