Fauna of Colombia - Mammals

Mammals

There are 456 reported species of mammals in Colombia. Of these, about 22% are endangered or critically endangered. Most of the threatened species status are due to human activities, in particular destruction of plant and animal habitats driven by local consumption of organic resources, especially related to tropical forest destruction.

While most of the species that are becoming extinct are not food species, their biomass is converted into human food when their habitat is transformed into pasture and cropland.

Colombia has the largest number of terrestrial mammals species in the world, including among others:

• The Spectacled bear another rare mammal specie, similar to the Giant panda in Asia.

• Tamandua tetradactyla

• Callicebus cupreus

• West Indian Manatee

• Black-mantled Tamarin

• Three-striped Night Monkey

• Jaguarundi

• Colombian Woolly Monkey
• Colombian Black-handed Titi
• Coppery Titi
• Lucifer Titi
• Black Titi
• Collared Titi
• Ornate Titi
• White-fronted Capuchin
• Atelopus ebenoides
• Giant Anteater
• Giant Armadillo
• Greater Long-nosed Armadillo
• Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth
• Linnaeus's Two-toed Sloth
• Myrmecophagidae
• Nine-banded Armadillo
• Pale-throated Three-toed Sloth
• Pygmy Marmoset
• Silky Anteater
• Southern Naked-tailed Armadillo
• Southern Tamandua
• Spectacled bear
• Tamandua
• Two-toed sloth
• Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth
• Amazonian Manatee
• West Indian Manatee