Childrens Illustrated Animal Atlas

19 Purple gallinule This duck-sized bird has long toes that allow it to walk on lily pads without sinking. Green tree frog Depen ...

20 South America Earth’s fourth-largest continent lies mostly in the southern half of the world. It has tropical rain forests, d ...

21 URUGUAY GUYANA BRAZIL VENEZUELA BOLIVIA FALKLAND ISLANDS (UNITED KINGDOM) FRENCH GUIANA (FRANCE) A T L A N T I C O C E A N Pa ...

22 Amazon rain forest The Amazon is the Earth’s largest tropical rain forest, and it surrounds one of the world’s largest rivers ...

23 Red howler monkey Red howlers live up to their name. They are the loudest animals on land, and their howls can be heard 3 mil ...

24 COLOMBIA LocationThe Andes stretch more than 4,500 miles (7,240 km) through seven countries. The climate here ranges from hum ...

25 The Andean condor is the world’s largest flying bird. It rides mountain air currents with a wingspan of up to 10 1 ⁄^2 ft (3. ...

26 The greater rhea can reach 41 ⁄ 2 ft (1.4 m) tall. It can’t fly, but it can run as fast as 37mph (60 kph). Coypu Sometimes mi ...

27 Montevideo Location The pampas lies mostly in Argentina, stretching into Uruguay. Although it is warm and humid here, the sum ...

Jabiru stork The jabiru is the tallest flying bird in South and Central America, and can grow to over 3 ft (1 m) high. It grabs ...

29 A jabiru stork wades through the Pantanal. Marine iguana Marine iguanas are the only lizards to swim in the ocean, where they ...

30 Often called “a fox on stilts,” the maned wolf’s long legs help it to see over the tall Cerrado grass. Maned wolf BRAZIL HABI ...

31 ATLANT IC (^) O CE A N Termites Termites are ant-sized insects that build their own “cities.” These huge mounds get up to 30 ...

Cordillera Blanca Part of the Andes, this is the largest tropical mountain range in the world. Peaks over 19,685 ft (6,000 m) hi ...

Mountain caracara This black-and-white bird of prey builds nests of sticks on cliff ledges in the high Andes. 33 Giant hummingbi ...

34 Africa This continent is so large and has so many different habitats, it feels as if there are several Africas, not just one. ...

Sahara desert Huge, hot, and harsh, the Sahara at first seems too extreme a region for anything to survive. However, scorpions, ...

A T L A N T IC O CE AN Striped hyena Also found in Asia as far as India, this nighttime hunter has teeth and jaws strong enough ...

37 N S W E Location The Sahara stretches across North Africa, from the Atlantic Ocean in the west all the way to the Red Sea in ...

African grey parrot The mandrill has the most colorful face in the monkey world—and a bluish-purple bottom! Mandrill HABITAT KEY ...