South American Animals List With Pictures & Interesting Facts
South America is a continent known for its high biodiversity. Its rainforests, grasslands, mountains and deserts are home to a vast number of species, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth.
South American animals include mammals such as anteaters, tapirs, jaguar, maned wolf, howler monkeys and spider monkeys; reptiles such as caimans, anacondas and iguanas; amphibians such as poison dart frogs and the red-eyed tree frog; and birds such as the harpy eagle, rheas and macaws.
On this page is a list containing these and many other animals that live in South America, with pictures, facts, and links to further information on each.
South American Animal Habitats
South America is home not just to the world’s largest, and most famous rainforest – the Amazon Rainforest, but also to other important rainforests, including the Atlantic Rainforest and the …