The pud??s (Mapudungun p??d?? or p??du,[1] Spanish: pud??, Spanish pronunciation: [pu????u]) are two subspecies of South American deer from the genus Pudu, and are the world's smallest deer.[2] The name is a loanword from Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of southern Chile.[3] The two species of pud??s are the northern pud?? (Pudu mephistophiles) from Colombia, Ecuador, and