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North America, South America: 11 Giant panda: Ailuropoda melanoleuca: Ursidae: 85-120: 160: 1.5 - 1.9: 2.0: 1.0: Asia: 12 Cougar: Puma concolor: Felidae: 53.1–71 [citation needed] 105.2 (Verified) [20] 125.2 (Unverified) [21] 1.5 - 2.4 [22] 2.8 [23] 0.53 - 0.88 [24] North and South America: 13 Leopard: Panthera pardus: Felidae: 30–65.8 [25 ...
The spectacled bear is the only bear native to South America and is the largest land carnivore in that part of the world, although as little as 5% of its diet is composed of meat. Among South America's extant, native land animals, only the Baird's tapir, South American tapir and mountain tapir are heavier than the bear. [7]
The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera that is native to the Americas.With a body length of up to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) and a weight of up to 158 kg (348 lb), it is the biggest cat species in the Americas and the third largest in the world.
Various carnivorans, with feliforms to the left, and caniforms to the right. Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh. Members of this order are called carnivorans, or colloquially carnivores, though the term more properly refers to any meat-eating organisms, and some carnivoran species are omnivores or herbivores.
South America's considerable cervid diversity belies their relatively recent arrival. The presence of camelids in South America but not North America today is ironic, given that they have a 45-million-year-long history in the latter continent (where they originated), and only a 3-million-year history in the former. Family: Tayassuidae (peccaries)
The largest dinosaurs, and the largest animals to ever live on land, were the plant-eating, long-necked Sauropoda. The tallest and heaviest sauropod known from a complete skeleton is a specimen of an immature Giraffatitan discovered in Tanzania between 1907 and 1912, now mounted in the Museum für Naturkunde of Berlin. It is 12–13.27 m (39.4 ...
Carnivorans found in South America — the carnivorous mammals of South America. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. C.
Some A. simus individuals might have been the largest land-dwelling specimens of Carnivora that ever lived in North America. Standing up on its hind legs, A. simus stood 2.4–3.4 m (8–11 ft), [42] [43] with a maximum vertical arm reach of 4.3 metres (14 ft). [44]