Tayra Facts | Brazil Wildlife Guide
The sleek, longhaired, chocolate-brown tayra—a 3-foot-long giant of the weasel family—can weigh up to 10 pounds. It normally eats rodents and, despite its size, can take down a small deer. While in the Pantanal, be sure to look up to the crowns of deciduous trees, where they can sometimes be seen stalking squirrels with a snakelike, fluid prowl.
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Jaguars & Wildlife of Brazil's Pantanal
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Jaguars & Wildlife of Brazil's Pantanal
Track jaguars, scout for tapirs, look for hyacinth macaws and more in South America’s most extensive wild frontier—the sprawling wetlands of the Pantanal—with some of the planet's most abundant wildlife.
11 Days / May–Oct
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