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This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in South America. South America's terrestrial mammals fall into three distinct groups: "old-timers", African immigrants and recent North American immigrants.
An outdated historical 1913 restoration by Robert Bruce Horsfall depicting M. patachonica with an elephantine trunk. Macrauchenia fossils were first collected on 9 February 1834 at Port St Julian in southern Patagonia in what is now Argentina by Charles Darwin, when HMS Beagle was surveying the port (the Argentine Confederation claimed the region but did not effectively control it at the time ...
Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America South American tapir (also called the Brazilian tapir or lowland tapir) Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas in the north to Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay in the south, to Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador in the West. Mountain tapir (also called the woolly tapir)
Pages in category "Lists of mammals of South America" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Extinct mammals of South America (2 C, 12 P) A. Mammals of Argentina (2 C, 275 P) B. Mammals of Bolivia (1 C, 228 P) Mammals of Brazil (7 C, 48 P)
The fauna of South America consists of a huge variety of unique animals some of which evolved in relative isolation. The isolation of South America allowed for many separate animal lineages to evolve, creating a lot of originality when it comes to South American animal species. [ 1 ]
A South American tapir browsing leaves at Pouso Alegre, Transpantaneira, Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil. The South American tapir is an herbivore. Using its mobile nose, it feeds on leaves, buds, shoots, and small branches it tears from trees, fruit, grasses, and aquatic plants. They also feed on the vast majority of seeds found in the rainforest ...
Meridiungulata might have originated in South America from a North American condylarth ancestor, [3] and they may be members of the clade Laurasiatheria, related to other ungulates, including artiodactyls and perissodactyls. [4] It has, however, been suggested the Meridiungulata are part of a different macro-group of placental mammals called ...