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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 giant otter has a handful of other names. In Brazil it is known as ariranha, from the Tupi word arerãîa, or onça-d'água, meaning water jaguar. [6] In Spanish, river wolf (Spanish: lobo de río) and water dog (Spanish: perro de agua) are used occasionally (though the latter also refers to several different animals) and may have been more common in the reports of explorers in the 19th ...
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.
Josephoartigasia is a member of the family Dinomyidae, a group of hystricognath rodents native to South America, most commonly identified in Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Uruguay. The only living member is the pacarana , one of the largest living rodents at 15 kg (33 lb).
Carnivorans found in South America — the carnivorous mammals of South America. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. C.
One of the world's rarest canids, and Africa's most endangered carnivore. Siberian tiger: Panthera tigris tigris: 560 [10] EN [10] [10] Siberian tigers have made a comeback from the brink of extinction due to the strict laws of the Russian government. Russian Authorities believe that the number of living Siberian tigers will reach 700 after ...
In South America, the related phorusrhacids shared the dominant predatory niches with metatherian sparassodonts during most of the Cenozoic but declined and ultimately went extinct after eutherian predators arrived from North America (as part of the Great American Interchange) during the Pliocene. In contrast, large herbivorous flightless ...