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Peru's national bird is the Andean cock-of-the-rock. Peru has over 1,800 species of birds, the second-highest number of any country in the world. New species of birds are still being discovered and cataloged by scientists. 42 species from Peru have been officially added to science in the last 30 years.
Peruvian Amazonia (Spanish: Amazonía del Perú), informally known locally as the Peruvian jungle (Spanish: selva peruana) or just the jungle (Spanish: la selva), is the area of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, east of the Andes and Peru's borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia. This region comprises 60% of the country and is marked ...
Through cultural ecosystem services, biodiversity provides economic benefits in the form of recreation and tourism, while also benefitting human wellbeing. [49] [50] Biodiversity influences the potential of ecosystems to provide recreational services. [51] This includes outdoor recreation, such as hiking, hunting, fishing, and wildlife watching.
Brazil is the largest economy in South America in terms of Nominal GDP, it has a vast and diverse economic landscape encompassing agriculture, manufacturing, services, and natural resources. Due to Brazil's major economy, it has a large influence over its neighbors, and even globally.
The armadillos are small mammals with a bony armored shell. All 21 extant species are 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. Family: Dasypodidae (long-nosed armadillos) Subfamily ...
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The vicuña, Lama vicugna, is the national animal of Peru. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Peru.There are 417 mammal species in Peru, of which five are critically endangered, nine are endangered, thirty-two are vulnerable, and ten are near threatened.
South America is the continent with the largest number of recorded bird species. [3] Additionally, speciation has occurred at a higher rate in South America than in other parts of the world. [1] This is likely due to the large amount of land mass close to the equator.