Microlivestock Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Pudu mephistophiles is distributed throughout the highlands of Ecuador, where it occurs only in cool areas at great height. With their short legs, stocky bodies, and compact heads, pudus do not look much like deer- more like small antelopes with foxlike faces and spiky antlers.
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Several generations were also once bred in a Paris apartment and were treated exactly like domestic dogs, which most people who saw them for the first time thought they were. In recent years, habitat destruction has greatly reduced the range and numbers of these attractive and fascinating little creatures.
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(Infuriated vegetable growers commonly set their dogs on them.) Although at first sight these retiring, nervous, and agile creatures seem unlikely to be even potential microlivestock, young brackets are sometimes caught and raised by people.
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However, previous attempts at rearing them in Chile have met with little success. Nevertheless, huemuls have been kept in zoos in Germany, and such experiences together with the increasing knowledge of how to raise red deer and other species may eventually provide the keys to their continued existence.
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