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South America's 20 genera of nonhuman primates compares with 6 in Central America, 15 in Madagascar, 23 in Africa and 19 in Asia. All South American monkeys are believed to be descended from ancestors that rafted over from Africa about 25 million years ago in a single dispersal event. Suborder: Haplorrhini. Infraorder: Simiiformes
The giant otter or giant river otter [4] (Pteronura brasiliensis) is a South American carnivorous mammal. It is the longest member of the weasel family, Mustelidae, a globally successful group of predators, reaching up to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in). Atypical of mustelids, the giant otter is a social species, with family groups typically supporting ...
The timing of turnover events and the decline of South American predators do not correlate well with the arrival of large carnivores like canids or sabretooths (although they do correlate well with the earlier-arriving procyonids, which evolved to large body size in South America, but these were omnivorous [56]), with native South American ...
“They are the only group of birds that achieved the role of terrestrial apex predators, evolving species that basically conquered South America during the Miocene (about 23.03 million to 5.33 ...
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 oldest alvarezsauroid known from South America Alvarezsaurus: ... May have been the apex predator of its habitat, hunting both aquatic and terrestrial prey [33]
Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America South American tapir (also called the Brazilian tapir or lowland tapir) Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) Venezuela, Colombia, and the Guianas in the north to Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay in the south, to Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador in the West. Mountain tapir (also called the woolly tapir)
The bush dog (Speothos venaticus) is a canine found in Central and South America. [1] [2] In spite of its extensive range, it is very rare in most areas except in Suriname, Guyana and Peru; [2] [4] it was first described by Peter Wilhelm Lund from fossils in Brazilian caves and was believed to be extinct.