South America

The alpaca is a domesticated Andean camelid kept for its fleece.

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.

Anteaters are insect-eating mammals with elongated snouts.

Arapaimas are large South American freshwater fishes.

The Argentine horned frog is a broad-bodied ambush hunter with a very large mouth.

Armadillos are American mammals with bony armour.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The common bed bug is a small wingless insect that hides in sheltered cracks near sleeping hosts.

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 brown rat is a large, burrowing rodent that lives wherever people live.

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

Butterflies have diverse life histories.

Caecilians are limbless amphibians with concealed eyes and sensory tentacles.

Caimans are crocodilians of the Americas.

Capuchins are agile American monkeys with grasping tails and varied diets.

The capybara is the largest rodent in the world.

The domestic cat is a small carnivore with a flexible body and retractile claws.

Centipedes are many-legged predators.

The domestic chicken is a social ground-feeding bird descended chiefly from red junglefowl.

Chinchillas are South American rodents with exceptionally dense fur.

Cockroaches occupy many environments.

Corals include many colonial animals.

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

Domestic cattle are large social herbivores kept in many parts of the world.

True crabs include many forms.

Discus are deep-bodied South American cichlids familiar in aquariums.

The domestic dog is a social canid whose breeds vary greatly in size and appearance.

The domestic donkey is an herbivorous equid with long ears and sturdy hooves.

Ducks are waterbirds with many different feeding habits.

Egrets are herons known for pale plumage in several species.

The electric eel is a South American freshwater fish that generates electrical signals.

The elegant tern is a slender coastal seabird with a long orange bill and shaggy dark crest.

The fallow deer is a grazing and browsing deer often associated with woodland edges and open grass.

Flamingos are long-legged waterbirds with curved filtering bills.

Fleas are wingless parasitic insects.

The common fruit fly is a small, widely transported insect associated with fermenting fruit.

The Galápagos giant tortoise is the largest living tortoise and one of the longest-lived animals.

The gentoo penguin is the third largest penguin and the fastest swimmer of the family.

Goats belong to the genus Capra, which includes wild species and domestic forms.

The golden poison frog is the most poisonous animal known.

The goldfish is a domesticated freshwater fish with many selectively bred forms.

The Goliath birdeater is the heaviest spider in the world.

The great blue heron is the biggest of the North American herons and a patient hunter of shallow water.

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 anaconda is a heavy-bodied South American boa associated with slow-moving water.

The green iguana is a large tree-climbing lizard of tropical America.

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

Guinea pigs are social rodents kept by people.

The guppy is a small freshwater fish widely bred for aquariums.

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.

Hermit crabs use empty shells for protection.

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

The domestic horse is a grazing equid with a long history alongside people.

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 housefly is a widespread insect closely associated with people.

Howler monkeys are tree-dwelling American primates known for their powerful calls.