Rare Birth Gives Hope to Endangered Deer — VOA Learning English
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Recently, a rare pudu was born in an Argentinian zoo. The birth has given scientists and conservationists a chance to study and collect data on the small deer.
Pudus are one of the smallest deer species in the world. They can grow up to 50 centimeters tall and weigh up to 12 kilograms. At birth, the white-spotted male pudu weighed just 1.21 kilograms.
Workers at the conservation organization Temaiken Foundation named it Lenga after a tree species in the Andean Patagonian Forest of Chile and Argentina.
"It's a very enigmatic animal. It's not easy to see," said Maximiliano Krause. He is Lenga's caretaker at the nonprofit organization.
Krause says Lenga is spending his days exploring the park with…
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