🇵🇪 Animals of Peru

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

The Andean condor is a huge black vulture of the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

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

The capybara is the largest rodent in the world.

The fin whale is the second longest animal alive and one of the fastest of the great whales.

The guanaco is the wild camelid of South America and the ancestor of the llama.

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 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 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 spectacled bear is South America's only bear and the last of the short-faced bears, named for the pale rings that circle its eyes.

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

The vicuña is the smallest wild camelid and the ancestor of the alpaca, living on the high grassland of the central Andes.