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Peru's national bird is the Andean cock-of-the-rock. Peru has over 1,800 species of birds, the second-highest number of any country in the world. New species of birds are still being discovered and cataloged by scientists. 42 species from Peru have been officially added to science in the last 30 years.
The blue whale population is estimated to be around 14,000. ... Whales caught 2010–2014, by country. ... Peru and Japan ...
The vicuña, Lama vicugna, is the national animal of Peru. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Peru.There are 417 mammal species in Peru, of which five are critically endangered, nine are endangered, thirty-two are vulnerable, and ten are near threatened.
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Peru has a population of over 32 million, and its capital and largest city is Lima. At 1,285,216 km 2 (496,225 sq mi), Peru is the 19th largest country in the world, and the third largest in South America.
The country's conservation agency said Monday a creature that washed up on a South Island beach this month is believed to be a spade-toothed whale. Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest ...
The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena. Southern right whales inhabit oceans south of the Equator, between the latitudes of 20° and 60° south. [5] In 2009 the global population was estimated to be approximately 13,600. [6]
Minke whales are estimated to consume 633,000 tons of Atlantic herring per year in part of Northeast Atlantic. [60] In the Barents Sea, it is estimated that a [potential] net economic loss of five tons of cod and herring per fishery results from every additional minke whale in the population due to the fish consumption of the single whale. [61]