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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.
South America had no placental predatory mammals until the Pleistocene, and xenarthran large-mammal faunas may have been vulnerable to many factors including a rise in numbers of mammalian predators, resource use by spreading North American herbivores with faster metabolisms and higher food requirements, and climate change.
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 ...
The fauna of South America consists of a huge variety of unique animals some of which evolved in relative isolation. The isolation of South America allowed for many separate animal lineages to evolve, creating a lot of originality when it comes to South American animal species. [ 1 ]
Guanacos are one of the largest terrestrial mammals native to South America today. [6] Other terrestrial mammalian megafauna weighing as much or more than the guanaco include the tapirs , the marsh deer , the white-tailed deer , the spectacled bear , and the jaguar .
Armadillos are small mammals with a bony armored shell. There are 21 extant species in the Americas, 19 of which are only found in South America, where they originated. Their much larger relatives, the pampatheres and glyptodonts, once lived in North and South America but became extinct following the appearance of humans.
Lists of mammals of South America (1 C, 17 P) * Mammals of the Andes (114 P) Dog breeds originating in South America (9 C, 1 P) Extinct mammals of South America (2 C ...
Fauna of South America by dependent territory (3 C) Fauna of South America by region (13 C) A. Aquatic animals of South America (5 C, 1 P) I.