---
title: "Sarniak pampasowy"
description: "Ozotoceros bezoarticus — Ssaki. The Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is a species of deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/pampas-deer
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Sarniak pampasowy

> Ozotoceros bezoarticus — Ssaki. The Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is a species of deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations.

- Scientific name: *Ozotoceros bezoarticus*
- Category: `mammals` (Ssaki)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Łąki i pola), `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 1322
- Wikidata: [Q674003](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q674003)
- iNaturalist taxon: [42171](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/42171)

## Names

- en: Pampas Deer
- de: Pampashirsch
- es: Ciervo De Las Pampas
- fr: Cerf Des Pampas
- nl: Pampahert
- pt: Veado-campeiro
- pl: Sarniak pampasowy

## Countries with the most observations

BR (786), AR (355), UY (77), BO (21)

## Summary

The Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) is a species of deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations. They are known as veado-campeiro in Portuguese and as venado or gama in Spanish. It is the only species in the genus Ozotoceros.
Their habitat includes water and hills, often with winter drought, and grass that is high enough to cover a standing deer. Many of them live on the Pantanal wetlands, where there are ongoing conservation efforts, and other areas of annual flooding cycles. Human activity has changed much of the original landscape.
They are known to live up to 12 years in the wild,…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampas_deer

## Photo

![Sarniak pampasowy](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pampas-deer/medium.jpg)

Photo: Simon Tonge · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108937799

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pampas-deer?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).