South America | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants

A pair of guanaco grazing in a yellow field in front of a blue lake and snow-capped mountains of Patagonia

Map of South America

A giraffe dines on some thorny acacia leaves in Africa

Agave

Agouti sniffs the grass

American kestrel

American Kestrel

Anaconda slithers through the grass

Andean Bear

Andean (Spectacled) Bear

Andean Condor sitting at Mirador Cruz del Condor

Amazonian leafcutter ants

Armadillo on the prairie

Red Panda eating bamboo.

Little green sunbird on banana flower

Flying fox

Native California bee

Shining Leaf Chafer Beetle

Bird's-nest fern

Bird's-nest Fern

Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia Cyane) feeding on Blue Porterweed with purple flowers.

Blue Porterweed

Emerald tree boa

Bonsai maple at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Burrowing owl popped out of its burrow.

Monarch butterfly resting on green leaf

Butterfly, Moth, and Skipper

Cacao pods growing on a tree.

Cochal cactus

Caecilian slithering along dirt ground

Group of Capybara on a river bank in Pantanal Brazil

Wild short-tailed chinchilla

Orange discus fish cichlid

Coati climbing down a rock boulder.

Male cock-of-the-rock

Cock-of-the-rock

A Chinese dwarf crocodile floating half-submerged in water

Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) Male

Dragonfly and Damselfly

Pitaya fruit growing on plants

Dragonfruit (Pitahaya, Pitaya)

Two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung on gravel

A multi-colored close shot of an epiphyllum.

Medusa's Head Euphorbia

Many figs are shown hanging on a ficus tree.

Red Vine shown in bloom.

four flamingos stretch their necks up to the sky

Pink silk floss tree blooms

Floss Silk Tree

Red-legged kassina frog

A group of pink and white fuchsia flowers.

Galapagos tortoise with mouth stained by green vegetation meal

Galápagos Tortoise

A baby giant anteater rides on its mother's back

the pink and white flowers of a shell ginger

A pair of guanacos from Argentina

Guinea pig held in a child's hand.

Costa Rican hummingbird

Grand Cayman Blue Iguana

Jacana walking on a lily pad.

Purple-flowered jacaranda tree

A jaguar peers out from under a tree branch

A kingfisher preening its extended wing

California kingsnake

Kinkajou climbing down leaves, sticking its tongue out.

Ladybug crawling down a blade of grass

Green-headed tree agama lizard

Hyacinth Macaws

Maidenhair fern growing from a wet, rocky cliffside.

Maidenhair Fern

A pair of manatees floating in murky turquoise Florida bayou water

Kangaroo joey peeks out of its mother's much as mother lounges on grass

Monarch butterfly drinking nectar from milkweed flowers.

Closeup of a white-headed langur holding onto a branch while it holds a green leaf in its mouth

mountain lion licking lips

Mountain Lion (Puma, Cougar)

Closeup of an ocelot's face as it looks right

The white flower on an orchid.

Hong Kong orchid tree blooms

Great horned owl in flight.

Close up of a fan palm frond.

Panamanian Golden Frog sitting on an algae covered rock in front of a mossy backdrop

Panamanian Golden Frog

African grey parrot

The open bloom of a purple and white Passion Vine.

A pair of peccaries.

Great White pelican

Pindo jelly palm fruit. Photo by Moxfyre: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

Pindo Palm (Jelly Palm)

Pink trumpet tree blooms.

Pink Trumpet Tree

Yellow plumeria blooms

Plumeria (Frangipani)

Yellow-banded poison frog

Porcupine

Prickly pear cactus with salmon-colored blooms

Prickly Pear Cactus

Pumpkin growing from its vine.

Pygmy marmoset sits on a bunch of bananas

Western diamondback rattlesnake on rust red stone

Fire salamander

Salamander and Newt

Scorpion in the Spanish desert

Sea lions sunning on sandstone rocks

oncilla

Yellow bush viper

orb weaver spider

Peruvian fire stick insect on a leafy branch

Saddlebill stork

Striped skunk walking across green grass.

A common fly trapped by a sundew

Surinam toad

A young tamandua gazes at the camera with a wet nose.

Tamandua or Lesser Anteater

South American tapir

Greenbottle blue tarantula

Toucan, Costa Rica

tree fern

Turtle with butterflies, Amazon

Turtle and Tortoise

Two-toed sloth

Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)

Tecoma stans blooms