#marsh deer

Marsh deer Blastocerus dichotomus

With cattle tyrant Machetornis rixosa

They're based on the esthetics I associate with the specific species the most ♡

(from the upper left to the lower right)

Marsh Deer Blastocerus dichotomus

Formerly found in much of tropical and subtropical South America, today it is largely reduced to isolated populations at marsh and lagoon zones in the Paraná, Paraguay, Araguaia and Guapore river basins. They are swift swimmers. The marshes with their high vegetation density protect them from predators and provide them with food. The majority of their diet is aquatic plants.

For @marcyschino !!!

Thank you smsmsm

Black legged friends!

[ID: digital drawing that features a maned wolf and a marsh deer floating in a dark green background; they seem to be moving around each other and looking at the other. They're both orange-yellow animals with black legs; both of them have darkened muzzles and big, pale ears. Their eyes are empty with a greenish yellow shine. Two bright sparks illuminate them from below, and a star is between the two, there are stars and sparks drawn in the rest of the space around. The scene is framed in gold drawings; at the top, there's an outline of the sight of the Iténez river at the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia, where there are populations of maned wolves; the drawing at the left of the river is a wolf apple flower (Solanum lycocarpum), a common fruit in the diet of maned wolves; on the right, a grass coming out of the water, which is what marsh deer eat. These figures are reversed at the bottom of the frame, where there's the outline of the Paraná River delta, Argentina, habitat of marsh deer. On the left side of the frame, there are waves drawn along, as well as a droplet, a sun, a moon and a star; the scientific name of the maned wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus, is written in square letters, and there's a pawprint of the canid. On the right side, the same drawings are drawn, the only difference is that the scientific name of the marsh deer is written, Blastocerus dichotomus, and a footprint of the cervid. End ID.]

Do you ever realize you haven't thought about your favourite characters in a while and think "i've abandoned my guy"? I think there's a tumblr post about that. Anyways, this happens to me but with my favourite animals, in this case the maned wolf <3. I decided i wanted to draw one, but it just felt empty, so i remembered i wanted to make a sequel to my illustration of the snow leopard and the Andean cat, and said "hey, i've drawn a maned wolf with the similar marsh deer before! i should do it with them", so here :]

The old drawing is below the cut, i'm glad i got to redo it!!