Publications by authors named "Alberto Enrique Perez"
The narrow Andean-Patagonian temperate rainforest strip in the west of southern South America is inhabited by two endemic species of cervids, the southern pudu (Pudu puda) and the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus), both cataloged as near threatened and threatened species, respectively. One of the possible causes of their declined number is the susceptibility to livestock diseases. Significant zooarchaeological records of both deer have been found throughout the Holocene from Patagonia.
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- * The eggs were yellowish, thin-shelled, and measured between 120.0 to 142.5 μm in length and 62.5 to 87.5 μm in width, resembling those of Fasciola hepatica.
- * This finding is the first of its kind globally and indicates that trematode diseases existed in ancient Patagonian deer before European cattle arrived.