#taruca

This South American deer has only two tines on it's antlers even fully grown, and it's location in the Andes Mountains combined with it's large fluffy body make it look similar to an alpine-enjoying antelope.

Males tend to have a distinctive black mask of pigment with a V-shape mark going down it's snout. Males also have sharp canine teeth.

Taruca enjoy high altitudes and the patchy grasses and shrubs that grow there. When they do descend from the mountains they may intermingle with the whitetail deer of Peru, but they rarely ever go lower then 4,000ft elevation.

From top to bottom, left to right: European moose (Alces alces alces)

Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)

Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni), Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus)

Sambar (Rusa unicolor), Visayan spotted deer (Rusa alfredi), taruca (Hippocamelus antisensis)

Eld's deer (Rucervus eldii)

European fallow deer (Dama dama), chital (Axis axis), water deer (Hydropotes inermis), tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus)