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The Pampas (from the Quechua: pampa, meaning "plain"), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than 1,200,000 square kilometres (460,000 sq mi) and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all of Uruguay; and Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.
The Pampas cat (Leopardus colocola) is a small wild cat native to South America. [1] It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List as habitat conversion and destruction may cause the population to decline in the future. [2] It is named after the Pampas, but occurs in grassland, shrubland, and dry forest at elevations up to 5,000 m ...
Declined due to clearance of gallery forests for agriculture and livestock grazing, and possibly also hunting and capture of animals for the exotic pet trade. [58] Sinú parakeet: Pyrrhura subandina: Sinú Valley, Córdoba Department, Colombia Last recorded in 1949.
The Criollo (in Spanish), or Crioulo (in Portuguese), is the native horse of the Pampas (a natural region between Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, in South America) with a reputation for long-distance endurance linked to a low basal metabolism.
The Pampas deer evolved as a plains animal; their direct ancestor first appeared during the Pleistocene epoch. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The deer may have evolved without culling predators, [ clarification needed ] as, when alarmed, they do not flee immediately but rather stamp their feet (like many deer), have a particular trot and whistle, and deposit ...
Pampas cat, a small wild cat; Pampas deer, a deer; Pampas fox, a medium-sized zorro; Pampas meadowlark, a bird; Cortaderia selloana, pampas grass, a flowering plant; Salpichroa origanifolia, pampas lily-of-the-valley, a flowering plant
In the Argentine Pampas, the flooding of vast swathes of the once much larger Pampas grasslands may have played a role in the extinctions of its megafaunal assemblages. [ 8 ] Critics object that since there were multiple glacial advances and withdrawals in the evolutionary history of many of the megafauna, it is rather implausible that only ...
Pampatheriidae ("Pampas beasts") is an extinct family of large cingulates related to armadillos.They first appeared in South America during the mid-Miocene, and Holmesina and Pampatherium spread to North America during the Pleistocene after the formation of the Isthmus of Panama as part of the Great American Interchange.