Cervidae, Goldfuss, 1820
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There are two species of deer in Matses territory, the red brocket ( Mazama americana ) and the gray brocket ( M. nemorivaga ). The general term that designates both of these species is senad (monomorphemic and absent from other Panoan languages), and its archaic synonym is çhaşhu (monomorphemic, but a common name for deer in other Panoan languages). While the two species of local deer have specific names, and two overdifferentiated varieties of one species are recognized and named, the Matses almost always use the term senad, unmodified, to talk about deer.
16 But pumas are said to eat only the young of this species (see the account for Puma concolor, above).
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