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Mexico City
Hyacinth macaws, blue and vast, a metre long from tail to beak; the jaguar, stocky and muscular, whose ancestors crossed the Bering Strait a million years ago; sloths, the slow, weird-looking tree-dwellers. Latin America is home to a dazzling array of creatures. Some 40% of the world’s species are found between Mexico’s deserts, the Amazon rainforest and the mountains of Patagonia.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “A sideline in bodies”
From the October 12th 2024 edition
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