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This is the largest cat in the Americas, and it kills by biting straight through the skull.
- Spectacled Bear
- Marine Otter
- Jaguar
- Crab-eating Fox
This is the largest rodent alive, a semi-aquatic grazer that can sleep with only its nose above water.
- Mountain Viscacha
- Capybara
- Plains Viscacha
- Pearson's Tuco-tuco
This long-snouted animal has no teeth at all and flicks a two-foot tongue 150 times a minute.
- Six-banded Armadillo
- Large Hairy Armadillo
- Giant Anteater
- Southern Tamandua
This freshwater swimmer turns pink with age and has an unfused neck, so it can turn its head sideways.
- Tucuxi
- Amazon River Dolphin
- Peale's Dolphin
- Southern Right Whale
This flame-orange primate fell to about two hundred animals and became the emblem of Brazilian conservation.
- Cotton-top Tamarin
- Golden-handed Tamarin
- Golden Lion Tamarin
- Emperor Tamarin
This is the only member of its family living south of Panama, marked with pale rings round its eyes.
- Culpeo
- Colocolo
- Spectacled Bear
- Crab-eating Fox
This is the longest member of the weasel family, and a family group hunts fish as a coordinated pack.
- Neotropical Otter
- Lesser Grison
- Giant Otter
- Marine Otter
This wild ancestor of a famous pack animal spits, and can run at 35 miles an hour on open steppe.
- Marsh Deer
- Vicuña
- Guanaco
- White-lipped Peccary
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