California marsh deer (SciiFii)

The California marsh deer (Blastocerus magnificens), also known as the Western American marsh deer, the western marsh deer, the North American swamp deer, or sometimes by the nickname of the "marshie", is a species of deer that originally did not exist, but has since been created by SciiFii and introduced throughout the wetlands, forests, open woodlands, grasslands, shrublands, scrublands, and deserts of the western and southwestern United States to help boost biodiversity. Their closest relative is the South American marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus), whom are in their genus. The California marsh deer is a medium-sized species of deer, averaging between 200-275 pounds in weight. Their coloration is distinctly an orange-brown. The male’s antlers are similar to those of the South American species, being forked with two lower tines and two upper tines on each antler. Their main diet includes aquatic plants, grasses, shrubs, leaves, fruits, roots, tubers, bulbs, cacti, ferns, horsetails, and other kinds of vegetation, being much more generalistic herbivores than their South American relative. These deer are able to adapt to arid climates such as deserts, unlike other deer species of its genus, thanks to several adaptations this species has that are also found in native desert-dwelling deer such as mule deer. These deer rarely form groups larger than six. They will often feed alongside mule deer, capybara, peccaries, giant beavers, mammoths, mastodons, stilt-legged deer, tapirs, pronghotns, stag-moose, bison, and other herbivores. The conservation status of the California marsh deer is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts, the California marsh deer's wide range and its tolerance to most of the human activities.
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