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Freshwater animals of South America (2 C, 6 P) ... Pages in category "Aquatic animals of South America" This category contains only the following page.
Prehistoric fish of South America (3 C, 35 P) A. Fish of Argentina (1 C, 45 P) B. Fish of Bolivia (125 P) Fish of Brazil (3 C) C. Fish of Chile (1 C, 40 P) Fish of ...
The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped the sea and its animals. They often depicted South American sea lions in their art. [19] Two statues of this species are the symbol of the city of Mar del Plata. [20] Indigenous peoples of South America exploited this species for millennia and by Europeans around the 16th century. [21]
Ganges river dolphin (national aquatic animal) Platanista gangetica [33] Indian elephant (national heritage animal) Elephas maximus indicus [34] Indonesia: Komodo dragon (national animal) Varanus komodoensis [35] Javan hawk-eagle (national bird) Nisaetus bartelsi [35] Asian arowana (national fish) Scleropages formosus [35] Italy: Italian wolf ...
The South American farms were very successful, and led to the growth of similar farms in North America and Europe. Nutrias from these farms often escaped, or were deliberately released into the wild to provide a game animal or to remove aquatic vegetation. [50] Nutria were introduced to the Louisiana ecosystem in the 1930s, when they escaped ...
Aquatic animals of South America (5 C, 1 P) I. Invertebrates of South America (15 C, 1 P) V. Vertebrates of South America (7 C) Pages in category "Fauna of South America"
This semiaquatic creature is found in and near freshwater streams and lakes from Mexico through Central and South America to Argentina and is the most aquatic living marsupial (the lutrine opossum also has semiaquatic habits). It is also the only extant marsupial species in which both sexes have a pouch.
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 ]