🇵🇦 Animals of Panama

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

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

The blue-footed booby is a seabird of the eastern Pacific that dives on schools of small fish.

The capybara is the largest rodent in the world.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

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

The red-eyed tree frog sleeps by day under a leaf with its colours hidden.

The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only hummingbird that breeds in eastern North America.

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

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

The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.