Southern Black-eared Opossum
The big-eared opossum (Didelphis aurita), also known as a saruê, or the gambá, is an opossum species from South America. It is found in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. This species, which was considered a population of the common opossum (D. marsupialis) for some time, was originally described as D. azarae by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1824, but this name was incorrectly given to the white-eared opossum (D. albiventris) for over 160 years. As such, the name azarae has been abandoned. Due to carrying offspring, female big-eared opossums tend to stay in smaller areas and reduce their movements.
Tijuca National Park
Brazil
+127 birds+30 mammals
Where Atlantic rainforest clings to steep granite slopes mere kilometres from Rio de Janeiro’s urban sprawl, one of Brazil’s most […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSerra do Cipó National Park
Brazil
+137 birds+24 mammals
Where granite peaks claw through the Brazilian cerrado and Atlantic Forest transition zones, crystalline streams cascade down escarpments carved over […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKItatiaia National Park
Brazil
+141 birds+19 mammals
Where granite peaks thrust through Atlantic Forest mist, Brazil’s oldest national park commands the border between Rio de Janeiro and […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSaint-Hilaire/Lange National Park
Brazil
+13 birds+11 mammals
Where Atlantic Forest transitions into open cerrado grassland, granite escarpments rise dramatically above the São Paulo state plateau, their weathered […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSerra da Bocaina National Park
Brazil
+132 birds+30 mammals
Where Atlantic rainforest meets coastal escarpment, a landscape of dramatic elevation transforms within mere kilometers from sea level to peaks […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKIguaçu National Park
Brazil
+133 birds+29 mammals
Where the Paraná Plateau drops away in a thunderous cascade, one of Earth’s most spectacular waterfall systems tears through subtropical […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSerra dos Órgãos National Park
Brazil
+130 birds+30 mammals
Dramatic peaks of Precambrian granite thrust skyward from the Atlantic Forest floor, their weathered faces etched by millennia of wind […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKIguazú National Park
Puerto Iguazú, Argentina
+12 birds+24 mammals
Where the Paraná Plateau plunges into mist and thunder, one of Earth’s most spectacular waterfall systems tears through subtropical rainforest […]
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