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Uruguay is home to a rich avifauna, including the Southern lapwing and the magnificent black-necked swan. As a result, birdwatching has become popular in selected locations. There are several snakes, with four venomous species: the rattlesnake ( Crotalus durissus terrificus ) , coral snake ( Micrurus altirostris ) , yarará ( Bothrops pubescens ...
Sei whale. Striped dolphin. The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti.
Saxatilia lepidota. Short-tailed river stingray. Shortnose guitarfish. White-dotted skate. Striped smooth-hound. Southern bluefin tuna. Southern pipefish. Striped Raphael catfish.
The Bioma Pampa Quebradas del Norte is a protected ecological area in Uruguay, protected by UNESCO since 2 June 2014. [1] This biological reserve consists out of a landscape with native grasses, streams and subtropical rainforests. [2] The biosphere reserve has a surface area of 110,882 hectares, consisting of a mosaic of ecosystems.
C. Capybara. Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo. Collared tuco-tuco. Common fat-tailed mouse opossum. Common yellow-toothed cavy. Cook's hocicudo. Crab-eating fox. Crab-eating raccoon.
Although nine is the typical number of bands on the nine-banded armadillo, the actual number varies by geographic range. [6] Armadillos possess the teeth typical of all sloths and anteaters. The teeth are all small, peg-like molars with open roots and no enamel. Incisors do form in the embryos, but quickly degenerate and are usually absent by ...
Lists of mammals by region cover mammals found in different parts of the world. They are organized by continent, region, and country, and in some places by sub-national region. Most are full species lists, while those for Australia and the Caribbean have links to more specific species lists.
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 1 ] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and ...