Peru - Animals
These animal images are from Peru - which ranks 2nd on Earth in Primate diversity with 34 species - 3rd in Mammals with 361 species - and 5th in Reptile diversity with 297 species. Images from the rainforest of the Amazon jungle, high altitudes of the Andes Mountains, arrid Sechura Desert coastal plains, and islands among the cold, low-salinity, and major upwelling Humboldt Current along the 3rd largest country of South America..
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(Microlophus - genus) - with about 20 species ranging from southern Ecuador to northern Chile (western slopes of the Andes), including the Galapagos Islands - all are ground lizards - this specimen during the early spring season, at about 12,000 ft. (3,658 m) - near the Marcahuasi (Monument to Humanity) - Casta district - Huarochiri province - Lima department - western Peru.
