🇧🇷 Animals of Brazil

The American kestrel is the smallest falcon in the Americas and the most numerous.

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The black swan is a large Australian waterbird with black plumage, white flight feathers and a bright red bill.

The black vulture is a glossy black scavenger of the Americas, with a bare grey head and white patches at the wingtips.

The budgerigar is a small green and yellow parrot from the dry interior of Australia.

The burrowing owl is a small, long-legged owl of open country in the Americas.

The capybara is the largest rodent in the world.

The cockatiel is the smallest cockatoo, and it lives across the dry inland of Australia.

The cougar is a large solitary cat that ranges from the Yukon to the tip of South America.

The Goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider in the world.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The great horned owl is a heavy, ear-tufted owl of the Americas, at home from Alaska to Argentina.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The harpy eagle is the most powerful bird of prey in the American rainforest, with rear talons the length of a grizzly bear's claws.

The hoatzin is a crested bird of Amazon swamp forest that lives on leaves and ferments them in a huge crop.

The house mouse is a small grey-brown rodent that lives in and around human buildings on every inhabited continent.

The house sparrow is a small brown and grey bird that lives beside people almost everywhere on earth.

The humpback whale is a large baleen whale found in every ocean.

The hyacinth macaw is the longest parrot in the world, a cobalt blue bird with bare yellow skin around the eye.

The Indian peafowl is the large ground bird of India and Sri Lanka, and it is India's national bird.

The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world.

The kinkajou is a small nocturnal relative of the raccoon that lives in the canopy of tropical forests from Mexico to Brazil.

Leafcutter ants carry pieces of leaf back to the nest, but they do not eat them.

The maned wolf is the tallest wild dog in the world and the largest canid in South America.

The monk parakeet is a small green parrot from southern South America with a pale grey face and breast.

The Muscovy duck is a large tree-perching duck of tropical America, black with white wing patches and a bare red face.

The nutria, or coypu, is a large semiaquatic rodent from the marshes of South America with orange teeth and a round rat-like tail.

The ocelot is a medium-sized spotted cat of the Americas, from Texas to northern Argentina.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The red junglefowl is a shy forest-edge bird of South and Southeast Asia, and the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken.

The rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

The scarlet macaw is a large, loud parrot of the American tropics.

The southern elephant seal is the largest seal on Earth, and a bull can weigh more than four times as much as a cow.

Spix's macaw is a small blue parrot from the dry Caatinga of north east Brazil.

The turkey vulture is the most widespread vulture in the Americas, and it finds its food by smell.

The western honey bee lives in colonies of tens of thousands and turns nectar into honey.