Hippocamelus antisensis
The Taruca or Andean stag or Hippocamelus antisensis is one of the two species of the kind Hippocamelus .
The taruca is an indigenous stag of the mountains of the Peru, Bolivia, Chile and the North-West of the Argentine. In this last country one finds it in the provinces of Salta, Jujuy, Tucumán, Catamarca and Rioja. He lives in the pastures of the upper floor of the Andean sierras, in family groups of to fifteen individuals. They are very timid and escape with the first signal of danger. Their aspect and their size are similar to those of the hippocamelus bisulcus or huemuls. They belong in fact to the same kind. The males taruca also have wood with a bifurcartion.
Their predatory traditional was the Puma and the Jaguar, but whereas the latter are in regression, it is the human predation which endangered the species. Hunting without moderation associated with the changes brought by this last to their habitat made the species increasingly rare. It was catalogued like " species in danger of extinction" with the international level (QUOTE).
Currently, the taruca is protected inside the National park Calilegua in Argentina, but it remains to take a set of measures to ensure its survival in the remainder of the country.
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