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The fauna of the Andes, a mountain range in South America, is large and diverse. As well as a huge variety of flora , the Andes contain many different animal species. With almost 1,000 species, of which roughly 2/3 are endemic to the region, the Andes are the most important region in the world for amphibians . [ 2 ]
There are six extant species of shrew opossum. They are small shrew-like marsupials confined to the Andes. Family: Caenolestidae. Genus: Caenolestes. Gray-bellied caenolestid, Caenolestes caniventer NT; Andean caenolestid, Caenolestes condorensis VU; Northern caenolestid, Caenolestes convelatus VU; Dusky caenolestid, Caenolestes fuliginosus LC
It is found in the Andes mountains and adjacent Pacific coasts of western South America. With a maximum wingspan of 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) and weight of 15 kg (33 lb), the Andean condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world, and is generally considered to be the largest bird of prey in the world.
Mammals of the Andes (114 P) N. Fauna of the northwestern Andean montane forests (20 P) P. Páramo fauna (1 C, 73 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Andes"
The Andean cock-of-the-rock is distributed in the cloud forests of the Andes. It lives in a large range of about 260,000 km 2 (100,000 sq mi) across Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, [1] mostly in ravines and forested streams in montane areas at 500 to 2,400 m (1,600 to 7,900 ft) elevation. It typically stays in the lower and ...
Like all snakes, Andean milk snakes are carnivores.Young milk snakes mostly eat insects, while larger milk snakes eat small mammals, birds, eggs, amphibians, and other reptiles, including venomous snakes.
Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) (NT) is the national bird of Chile. The wildlife of Chile is very diverse because of the country's slender and elongated shape, which spans a wide range of latitude, and altitude, ranging from the windswept coastline of the Pacific coast on the west to northern Andes to the sub-Antarctic, high Andes mountains in the east.
With fewer than an estimated 1500 animals in the wild, grouped in small, largely isolated populations in 2010, and due to the fact that the South Andean Huemul's habitat partly covers border areas between the two range States, both countries recognize the need to work in close collaboration in order to improve the situation and to prevent the ...