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huemul

22/03/2023 | News

A plan to save the huemul deer is moving forward in the Province of Chubut
Last November, the first huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) was born at the recently created "Shoonem Rehabilitation and Breeding Station", which operates under the supervision of the Shoonem Foundation in the Chubut Province. It has been more than seven decades since a huemul was born in captivity in Argentina. In 1936, a small group of these deer...

05/07/2022 | News

Overhunting was proved to have turned the huemul into an endangered species
In modern times, the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) was mistakenly conceptualized as a species adapted to forests and exclusively to high mountains, with rocky environments and steep slopes. However, a recent study conducted by CONICET researchers and colleagues questions this concept, assuring that the huemul is not different from other cervids,...

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