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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.
List of mammals of South America This page was last edited on 2 February 2020, at 05:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...
Map of South America. This is a list of South American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] The list includes animal extinctions in the Galápagos, Falklands, and other islands near ...
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)
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. ...
Guanacos stand between 1.0 and 1.3 m (3 ft 3 in and 4 ft 3 in) at the shoulder, body length of 2.1 to 2.2 m (6 ft 11 in to 7 ft 3 in), [5] [6] [7] and weigh 90 to 140 kg (200 to 310 lb). [8] Their color varies very little (unlike the domestic llama ), ranging from a light brown to dark cinnamon and shading to white underneath.
Ancestral sigmodontine rodents [3] apparently island-hopped from Central America to South America 5 or more million years ago, [4] [5] [6] prior to the formation of the Panamanian land bridge. They went on to diversify explosively, and now comprise 60% of South America's rodent species, while only making up 27% of Central America's. [n 2]
Forty percent of mammal species are rodents, and they inhabit every continent except Antarctica. This list contains circa 2,700 species in 518 genera in the order Rodentia. [ 1 ]