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This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in South America. ... Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species.
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 ...
Last recorded in South America in 1939, where it wintered. Likely extinct due to large scale hunting in North America, the conversion of the Great Plains to agriculture, and the extinction of the Rocky Mountain locust, once its prey. The South American pampas were converted to agriculture in the same manner afterward. [57]
South America: 25 African wild dog: Lycaon pictus: Canidae: 20-30 [74] ... List of largest mammals; List of largest cats; Largest organisms; List of largest wild ...
The two largest groups of South American ungulates, the notoungulates and the litopterns, were the only groups to persist beyond the mid Miocene. Only a few (mostly large) species of notoungulates and litopterns survived until the end-Pleistocene extinction event around 12,000 years ago where they became extinct with most other large mammals in ...
The largest of the tapirs is the Malayan tapir (Acrocodia indica), the only member of the family outside of South America. Maximum size is about 2.5 m (8.2 ft) in length, 1.2 m (3.9 ft) tall at the shoulder, and up to 540 kg (1,190 lb) in weight. [95] The second largest land mammal ever was Paraceratherium, a member of this
Primates of South America. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. : Miocene primates of South America (18 P)
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