Mammals of South America Trivia Questions
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This is the largest cat in the Americas, and it kills by biting straight through the skull.
Difficulty: Easy
- Spectacled Bear
- Marine Otter
- Jaguar
- Crab-eating Fox
This freshwater swimmer turns pink with age and has an unfused neck, so it can turn its head sideways.
Difficulty: Medium
- Tucuxi
- Amazon River Dolphin
- Peale's Dolphin
- Southern Right Whale
This primate's crimson face is a health signal, and pale-faced animals turn out to be carrying malaria.
Difficulty: Hard
- Emperor Tamarin
- Red-nosed Bearded Saki
- Bald Uakari
- Southern Muriqui
This is the largest rodent alive, a semi-aquatic grazer that can sleep with only its nose above water.
Difficulty: Easy
- Mountain Viscacha
- Capybara
- Plains Viscacha
- Pearson's Tuco-tuco
This flame-orange primate fell to about two hundred animals and became the emblem of Brazilian conservation.
Difficulty: Medium
- Cotton-top Tamarin
- Golden-handed Tamarin
- Golden Lion Tamarin
- Emperor Tamarin
This is the only sirenian that never enters the sea, and it can fast for months when the waters drop.
Difficulty: Hard
- South American Sea Lion
- Amazonian Manatee
- Galápagos Sea Lion
- Tucuxi
This long-snouted animal has no teeth at all and flicks a two-foot tongue 150 times a minute.
Difficulty: Easy
- Six-banded Armadillo
- Large Hairy Armadillo
- Giant Anteater
- Southern Tamandua
This is the only member of its family living south of Panama, marked with pale rings round its eyes.
Difficulty: Medium
- Culpeo
- Colocolo
- Spectacled Bear
- Crab-eating Fox
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