Recommended list of books, articles, web sites
on the Red Brocket Deer of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize
The Red Brocket deer of Mexico and Central America was known to the Mayan people and the rest of Mesoamerica plus from Panama into Colombia. However the white-tailed deer is the animal most frequently pictured in Late Classic Maya art, painted on vases, bowls, and plates. The red brocket deer is rarely pictured.
It would be nice to have a tabulation from middens of Mayan sites of Peten, Belize, Yucatan Peninsula, Tabasco, Chiapas, and other Mayan areas to see what percent of deer bones are white-tailed deer and what percent of the Mayan diet was the red brocket deer.
And no matter how often the ancient Maya ate the brocket deer, why is it not pictured in art as much as the white-tailed deer? And which is the deer species in most Mayan myths, of Chiapas, Yucatan, Peten. Not only is the white-tailed deer the most frequently pictured as headdress, as being hunted, or in dances, but also there are snake-deer, monkey-deer and other monster-like antler-wearing mythical hybrids (especially on vases from Tepeu 1, Late Classic, Peten, Guatemala).
The word for white-tailed deer is k'ej in Q'eqchi'. The word for male brocket deer is Kaxlan yuk in Q'eqchi. However more research is needed on the word tiuk (Grandia 2004:59).
PDFs, Articles, Books
on the Red Brocket Deer, Cabrito de Monte, Mazama temama
- ARANDA, Marcelo
- 2012
- Manual para el rastreo de mamíferos silvestres de México. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad - CONABIO-. Pages: 173-175. Available online:
http://200.12.166.51/janium/Documentos/6800.pdf
- CAMPOS, Luis, VILLAREAL, Oscar, CASTILLO, Teresita, HERNANDEZ, Jorge, FRANCO, Francisco and Roberto RESENDIZ
- 2007
- Alimentación del venado temazate rojo (Mazama temama), en un bosque mesófilo de montaña de México.
- JUAREZ, Diego, ESTRADA, Christian, BUSTAMANTE, Michelle, QUINTANA, Yasmín, MOREIRA, José and Jorge LÓPEZ
- 2010
- Guía Ilustrada de Pelos para la Identificación de Mamíferos Medianos y Mayores de Guatemala. Dirección General de Investigación DIGI. Instituto de Investigaciones Química y Biológicas (IIQB). Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Available online:
http://digi.usac.edu.gt/bvirtual/informes/puirna/INF-2007-014.pdf
- HERMES, María and Marleny ROSALES
- 2011
- Monitoreo Ecologico Participativo de la Riqueza y Distribución Espacial de Mamíferos Amenazados y en Peligro de Extinción en el Parque Nacional Laguna Lachua y Remanentes Boscosos de su Área de Influencia, Alta Verapaz. Programa Universitario de Investigación en Recursos Naturales y Ambiente (PUIRNA). Dirección General de Investigación. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. Page 34. Available online:
http://digi.usac.edu.gt/bvirtual/informes/puirna/INF-2011-023.pdf
- GRANDIA, Liza
- 2004
- The Wealth Report: Q'eqchi' Traditional Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in the Sarstoon-Temash National Park. On-line.
https://www.researchgate.net/
- PEREZ, Luz, MANDUJANO, Salvador, CONTRERAS, Fernando and Juan SALAZAR
- 2012
- Primeros registros del temazate rojo Mazama temama en áreas aledañas a la Reserva de la Biosfera de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 83. Pages 875-878. Available online:
www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/rmbiodiv/v83n3/v83n3a33.pdf
- VILLAREAL, O.A., CAMPOS, L.E., CASTILLO, T.A., CORTES, I., PLATA, F.X., and G.D. MENDOZA
- 2008
- Composición Botánica de la Dieta del Venado Temazate Rojo (Mazama temama), en la Sierra Nororiental del Estado de Puebla. Universidad y Ciencia. 23 (3) pages: 183.-188. Available online:
www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/uc/v24n3/v24n3a2.pdf
Several web sites of interest on the red brocket deer, Mazama temama
www.iucnredlist.org/details/136290/0
Range, distribution, biology, conservation, etc
http://manejofaunasilvestre.org/Congresos/Rio-Branco-2008/2008Riobranco_3.aspx#9
Distribution of deer centroamericano in Mexico.
www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200231
Species of the world and distribution.
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Mazama_temama/classification/
Clasification, taxonomy.
http://naturalhistory.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=766
Size, length and weight.
Compiled by Linda Bac, FLAAR Mesoamerica.
Edited by Dr Nicholas Hellmuth.
Posted April 2017